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Post saving a file, it creates a duplicate file named with semicolon at the end

#1

Hi

I’ve been using this wonderful text editor for a while now. But one thing that bothers me is if I am working on a file named ‘abc.php’, once I save it it makes another file named ‘abc.php;’. I really don’t know if this is because of atomic_save or something. Any help is appreciated.

Thanks.

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#2

you could try disabling atomic_save and seeing if it makes a difference.

Otherwise, it is likely one of your plugins - what packages do you have installed?

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#3

I really don’t have any suspicious packages at all. And I have toggled atomic_save without any luck.
BTW below is my package list:

1Self
AdvancedNewFile
ApacheConf.tmLanguage
CodeIgniter 2 ModelController
CodeIgniter Snippets
CodeIgniter Utilities
DocBlockr
Emmet
Function Name Display
HTML-CSS-JS Prettify
HTML5
JsonTree
Legal Document Creator
Markdown Extended
MySQL Snippets
OpenPath
Package Control
phpfmt
Preferences Editor
Pretty JSON
Python 3
ShellCommand
SideBarEnhancements
Status Bar Time
SublimeCodeIntel
SublimeLinter
SublimeLinter-csslint
SublimeLinter-html-tidy
SublimeLinter-jshint
SublimeLinter-php
SublimeLinter-phplint
SublimeLinter-xmllint
Theme - Soda
Theme - SoDaReloaded
TortoiseSVN
Virtual Host Snippet
WhoCalled Function Finder

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#4

hmm, does it only happen with PHP files?

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#5

No! This tendency is not limited to php. Any edited files possesses the same behavior.

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#6

You are going to have to disable all 3rd party packages and see if the issue goes away. If they do, then you need ot enable them one by one and see who the culprit is.

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#7

what OS are you using? if it turns out not to be a plugin, on Windows you could use a tool like https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/processmonitor.aspx to see what process is creating the file.

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