[josm-dev] problems with saving files in JOSM

Frederik Ramm frederik at remote.org
Thu Jan 3 16:09:52 GMT 2008


Hi Igor,

> A month or so ago I reported a bug with saving OSM files in JOSM 
> (version from 2007-12-29). Basically, neither the "Save" or "Save As" 
> seem to function after the first saving of newly downloaded OSM data 
> (I'm running it on Windows, by the way). The files does get a new 
> date/time, but when I compare it with the backup file, it is identical, 
> even though I added new nodes and ways into it.

JOSM isn't very clear on this but it only saves the current layer! Is it 
possible that you have added your changes on an extra layer so that they 
did not get saved? Try the "merge down" function in the layer context 
menu before you save. Does that help?

Bye
Frederik





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