Source Edit in IE7, 8

[windranger]

Hi,

I had IE 7.0 installed on my PC and I couldn't edit the source file of any html or htm file.
The problem was that whenever I opened the source with notepad (for example of an "index.html" file),
the source was opened in a file called "index[1].txt" instead of "index.txt".
Since the editing I did was actually made in this wierd file, the result was never reflected in the "index.html",
which stayed the same forever!
So, I couldn't edit any html page.

Now I installed IE 8 beta and changed the default editor back to notepad, only to see that it's the same #*$!.
It opens the source in "index[1].txt" and I can't make any modification in my page because I can't open the "index.txt" file.

Has anybody came across the same bug...?
Any suggestion is welcome.

Thanx.

[Trace]

When you use Internet Explorer (or any other browser for that matter) it's only showing you what the browser has downloaded, not the actual file. If you want to edit the source, you must do so at the server level. Browse to the actual file and edit it from there.

[windranger]

Of course, I wasn't trying to edit online pages (which indeed would be saved in the Temp directory).

I was talking about html files saved in a project folder in My Documents!

[rocknbil]

the source was opened in a file called "index[1].txt" instead of "index.txt". ....the result was never reflected in the "index.html"

Did you select "Save As..." and save the file as "index.html"? Then as Trace says, it must be uploaded to your server and replace the existing index.html.