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Hello, I just recently purchased EE and am so far loving it!

I have done templates for other CMS’ for quite some time and was looking to add EE to my skillset, which is going really well so far.

But, for the life of me, I cannot figure out WHY I cannot save my template as a text file?  This would make editing my template incredibly easier.

I have the agile records site installed as a test, it won’t even save that as a text file. I have seen a few other posts on this, none of which offered me any suggestions as Safe Mode is already disabled.

What am I missing? I figure it is something with the CHMOD settings, what should I set the relevant files to?

Thanks for the help!

TWO Screenshots:
1. The EE template structure (180 is template I want)
2. FTP View - I uploaded the 180 folder manually trying to sync it, but it also did not work

Welcome to the ExpressionEngine community!

Are you looking to be able to edit or create templates from outside the ExpressionEngine control panel? If so and you use a Mac, take a look at Mountee. It allows you to create and edit templates within the database from nearly any text editor (I use it with TextMate, a colleague uses it with Coda). It has been a major timesaver.

http://hellomountee.com/

Standard disclaimer here about having no association with Mountee beyond that of a more-than-pleased user of the product.

Thanks! I am going to look into this, a big issue I noticed is that when I edit them in the control panel, it uses a lot of my servers compute cycles - far more than a regular Drupal / Joomla extension.

I suppose I am just used to other CMS’ where I can fire up my FTP, pick the file & edit it in Dreamweaver, save it, and refresh the page.

The big goal is to be able to edit it in an editor, while this will work well, it’d be just as good if I could get the EE functionality to work.

Hi, 180.

What permissions are you using now? 777 for the folder is ideal..

Yes I am using 777 for all related files - got any other ideas?

Hi, 180 -

Can you let us know what you entered for the server path to your template files, please?  I don’t see that listed in your original post, and it could make all the difference.  Also, you don’t have to save templates to the themes folder; in fact, I’d recommend that you don’t since you replace themes when upgrading and that could lead to accidentally removing your saves templates.

Let us know what you have that path entered as.  Thank you!