Raspberry Pi Leafpad erases content of Samba-shared text files

[allanr]

I'm new to the Raspberry Pi world and was very pleased to get it all setup and sharing files with Linux Mint and Win 7 PCs using Samba instructions at https://www.raspberrypi.org/documentati ... s/samba.md

However when using Leafpad on the Pi to edit a text file on a networked PC, the remote file opens ok and edits proceed as normal, but immediately after a 'Save' the Leafpad window is cleared and File Manager reports the text file has 0 bytes. Opening the file in Geany confirms it is now empty.

This behaviour occurs with files on a remote Linux PC and a Win 7 PC. Comparable tests with Geany work correctly with no data loss. As a double-check I installed gedit on the Pi and it functions properly. It is only Leafpad that causes data loss.

I've searched the Raspbian forum but not found any other reports, but I did find this Github thread https://github.com/stevenhoneyman/l3afpad/issues/13 describing a similar situation (Nov 2015) but no resolution.

The xed and Geany editors in Linux Mint, and Notepad++ in Win 7 edit remote text files on the Pi correctly, which I suppose is the more conventional way of working. However, as this issue is pretty serious I wondered if there was a solution or workaround?
At the moment I've made Geany the default text editor.

Thanks.

System: Pi 3B+ with latest Raspbian 9.6

[Andyroo]

There is a fix here https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/44681 that needs two lines swapping over and a recompile if you are in love with Leafpad

More interestingly is the note below that describes that the error depends on the way you mount the share! That may be an easier fix to test than a make...

[allanr]

Thanks Andyroo for the informative link.

I'll stick with Geany as my default text editor to avoid getting too side-tracked from the original Pi project! and hopefully the thread might help others in the future.