{"version":"2.1.288","anchor":"config-save-failure-message","canonical_anchor":"config-save-failure-message","heading":"Clear message when a settings change cannot be saved","tier":"notice","area":"Settings","scope":"individual","heads_up":false,"url":"https:\/\/changelogs.core-directive.com\/v\/2.1.288\/e\/config-save-failure-message","release_url":"https:\/\/changelogs.core-directive.com\/v\/2.1.288","markdown":"### Clear message when a settings change cannot be saved\n\nIf Claude Code cannot write a change to its config file, it now says nothing changed and asks you to check the file can be written\n\n**Unclear.** It is not clear which actions show this message.\n\n**What**\n\nIf Claude Code fails to write a change to its config file, the file where your settings are kept, it now shows: \"Could not save this to the config file, so nothing changed. Check that the file can be written, then try again.\"\n\n**Why**\n\nYou find out straight away that a settings change did not stick, rather than assuming it did.\n\n- Area: Settings\n- Tier: You'll notice\n- Useful: 1\/5\n- Signal: 1\/5\n- Scope: individual\n- Heads-up: no"}