Save failed: The file cannot save saved and it may be protected.

Sun W Kim · Jul 22, 2015, 5:29 PM

I get this error on Windows Server 2008 R2:

Save failed
The file cannot save saved and it may be protected.
Do you want to launch Notepad++ in Administrator mode?

I click Yes, try to save the file. I’m not sure if the file is saved OK at this point, but when I close the file, it asks me to save it again. I do.

When I re-open the file, it shows as saved.

So, I am not sure where the save is occurring, but it is getting saved.

I’m not really sure what’s going on.