PyCharm fails to save files and replacing them with empty ones

Looks like this XML file got broken somehow. Could you back it up and then delete it? Has it helped?

Has not helped, now I'm getting:

09:43 Load Settings
Cannot load settings from file 'C:\Users\kig0pkt12\.PyCharmCE2019.3\config\options\usage.statistics.xml': content truncated
File content will be recreated

09:43 Load Settings
Cannot load settings from file 'C:\Users\kig0pkt12\.PyCharmCE2019.3\config\options\updates.xml': content truncated
File content will be recreated

09:43 Load Settings
Cannot load settings from file 'C:\Users\kig0pkt12\.PyCharmCE2019.3\config\options\recentProjectDirectories.xml': content truncated
File content will be recreated

09:43 Load Settings
Cannot load settings from file 'C:\Users\kig0pkt12\.PyCharmCE2019.3\config\options\packages.xml': content truncated
File content will be recreated

09:44 Unable to save settings: Failed to save settings. Please restart PyCharm

09:44 Unable to save settings: Failed to save settings. Please restart PyCharm

09:44 Load Settings
Cannot load settings from file 'C:\CloudTest\Hydra\.idea\workspace.xml': content truncated
File content will be recreated

Also deleting the whole .idea folder did not help

Do you see anything related in your idea.log (Help | Show Log in...)?

https://pastebin.com/cU3vpkDW

Still happening with 2019.3.3. Sometimes after I reboot PC it's gone. But this bug comes back the next day :-(

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It's still happening :-(
And I don't think it's a Windows file permission error.

From the log

java.lang.RuntimeException: java.io.IOException: Cannot save C:\CloudTest\Hydra\.idea\workspace.xml.
Unable to open the file for writing.

Please verify that workspace.xml exist on the specified path. If it does, it's most likely a case of permission issues. Your user home is in non-default path, which is likely the source of the issue. Try creating a new Windows user with home in default path (which is c:\users) and run PyCharm from there.

If C:\CloudTest is a virtual folder, it may not be accessible by Java.

Sadly this is still happening.

Look like the same problem: https://intellij-support.jetbrains.com/hc/en-us/community/posts/360000111590-Cannot-save-files

Also: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/49244375/pycharm-cannot-save-files

Where did the "Safe writing" setting go?

Well, the logs do show "access denied" exception

2018-03-13 09:34:27,136 [  35074]   WARN - j.util.io.SafeFileOutputStream - D:\Scripts\.idea\workspace.xml (Access is denied) 
java.io.FileNotFoundException: D:\Scripts\.idea\workspace.xml (Access is denied)
	at java.io.FileOutputStream.open0(Native Method)
	at java.io.FileOutputStream.open(FileOutputStream.java:270)
	at java.io.FileOutputStream.<init>(FileOutputStream.java:213)
	at java.io.FileOutputStream.<init>(FileOutputStream.java:162)

My money are on permission issue.

>Where did the "Safe writing" setting go?

Still there

>Still there

Why is it gone in 2020.2 EAP?

You're right, I think it was renamed to 'back up files before saving'