How do Quickcursor & Writeroom work with Mountain Lion's Notes?

[vincentvw]

Hi, 

I'm using Notes and Writeroom as an interface to keep track of my word count. However when I try to close the Writeroom window, it gives me the following error:

"You don’t have permission to write to the folder that the file “filename” is in." I can only duplicate the file. It's an iCloud location, if it helps.

Please let me know if you need additional info. I don't mind hearing a negative answer, but I would like an explanation.

Thanks,

Vincent

[vincentvw]

Bump?

[Grey]

The location might be an issue, or the file got mistakenly quarantined by OS X, which has been happening on Mountain Lion (even to TextEdit, I believe...). I'm unable to go web-browsing for the quarantine bug issue, but the first thing I'd suggest would be to duplicate your file and start using the new duplicated one.

(I don't have all-day/every-dy Internet or faster than slow DSL at the moment and weekends are busy/offline right now, hence a not-immediate response to the original post; I get all posts via email, no worries there).

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[Grey]

From memory on the quarantine issue: 10.8 may slap a quarantine flag on a file if its being used by multiple sources and/or at least one is sandboxed. So if you have your Notes document open or otherwise being used by the system at the same time, that may have flagged it. (That's from a weeks-old memory of reading an article on this, I may be wrong.)

[Vincent van Wylick]

Hi Grey,

Thanks for your message. Writeroom > 'save as' tells me that Notes stores its iCloud files in 

Main drive > private > var > folders > 3q > long folder name starting with 'yvqjw…' > T > filename. 

Do you think it's worth trying to change permissions to that file & folder?

Thanks

Vincent

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[Grey]

Gotta say it's worth trying, but make sure you keep a backup of that folder first in case iCloud sync or Notes starts producing errors… I still don't know exactly how iCloud or the OS X Sandbox decide on certain things.

One alternative: Try something like WordService (free system service from DevonTechnologies): http://www.devontechnologies.com/products/freeware.html. It's not a live word count in the same way, but as a system service it might play with Notes/iCloud better. Here's an old (old!) article on it: http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20050131070150220, or roll your own with something like this: http://www.leancrew.com/all-this/2011/06/reading-time-redux/ which I have installed and it seems to work OK (but again, not a live wordcount).