Added: February/06/2008 at 9:59am | IP Logged

yes... please do

as far as writing to text files goes I would think read and delete permissions for the anonymous webserver account would be enough..

I can tell you that this is the 1st time anyone has brought this up so chances are it is your host especially if you have noticed the trouble before..

Have you ever tried some simple tests... like taking some examples from www.aspin.com and testing editing an existing a text file under the most simple of scenario ? That would probably be a good start.

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Added: February/06/2008 at 10:28am | IP Logged

Yep, it was the permissions.  As a test, I changed the .txt file paths in the edit_pic_desc.asp & save_pic_desc.asp files to another directory I'm using for another app that also uses the .txt file system object on this site and all worked fine. 

I had pretty much this same problem when I set this other app up up a few months ago, and ended up needing the host to manually set the permissions to allow for editing (creating and deleting is no problem for some reason, but editing is) - apparently, it's some flaw in their web control panel that hosting customers have to use to set permissions.  Host is Hostway - generally a pretty good host, but permissions are always an issue with them.