# Problems saving SWISH notes

**URL:** https://swi-prolog.discourse.group/t/problems-saving-swish-notes/1171
**Category:** SWI-Prolog web site and services
**Created:** [September 5, 2019, 7:20am UTC](https://swi-prolog.discourse.group/t/problems-saving-swish-notes/1171 "2019-09-05T07:20:50Z")
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### Author: ![joeblog](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/swi-prolog.discourse.group/joeblog/32/122_2.png) [@joeblog](https://swi-prolog.discourse.group/u/joeblog)
#### Post date: [September 5, 2019, 7:20am UTC](https://swi-prolog.discourse.group/t/problems-saving-swish-notes/1171/1 "2019-09-05T07:20:51Z")

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I’ve hit a snag where when I try to update a notebook I’m writing in SWISH I get a “Permission denied. Please try a different name” error.

Previous ones I’ve done, eg [https://swish.swi-prolog.org/p/Iteration2.swinb](https://swish.swi-prolog.org/p/Iteration2.swinb) didn’t give that problem (once I learned that putting a short sentence in the “Changes” box was mandatory).

But one I’m currently working at at [https://swish.swi-prolog.org/p/htdp.swinb](https://swish.swi-prolog.org/p/htdp.swinb) refuses to save unless I keep changing the name to htdp1.swinb or whatever. I’ve no idea what I’m doing differently to the previous ones that worked.

Any ideas what causes this glitch?

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### Author: ![JCR](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/258eb7/32.png) [@JCR](https://swi-prolog.discourse.group/u/JCR)
#### Post date: [September 9, 2019, 2:59pm UTC](https://swi-prolog.discourse.group/t/problems-saving-swish-notes/1171/2 "2019-09-09T14:59:10Z")

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I ran into the same problem. I don’t know if it helps you, but my solution was to download the notebook, upload it on GitHub, and preload swish with the GitHub file; i.e. using a link:  
`http://swish.swi-prolog.org/?code=<link to your GitHub raw>`  
Kind regards, JCR

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### Author: ![joeblog](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/swi-prolog.discourse.group/joeblog/32/122_2.png) [@joeblog](https://swi-prolog.discourse.group/u/joeblog)
#### Post date: [September 16, 2019, 10:27am UTC](https://swi-prolog.discourse.group/t/problems-saving-swish-notes/1171/3 "2019-09-16T10:27:34Z")

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This was due to a bug which has been fixed by @jan as explained at [https://swi-prolog.discourse.group/t/swish-notebooks-problems-updating-not-sharing-when-logged-in/1257/3](https://swi-prolog.discourse.group/t/swish-notebooks-problems-updating-not-sharing-when-logged-in/1257/3)