Bless cannot save edited files

I found this only happen when the size of the file has changed. Ubuntu 12.04 64-bit.

The problem is bless doesn't have a value for the temp directory, and wont let it be change. Found a work around. Edit the file ~/.config/bless/preferences.xml, change the line <pref name="ByteBuffer.TempDir" /> to <pref name="ByteBuffer.TempDir">[somedir]</pref> replace [somedir] with desired location to temp folder. Note: directory path has to be absolute.

There is a one-line patch that apparently fixes the problem available at the following link. I haven't tried the patch, however.
http://gna.org/bugs/?14878

How do you apply this patch?

please patch this its getting annoying

please please hello

Christian Johnson's workaround works for me, most probably it will work for you, please try that rather than expecting an unmaintained project to be patched

Apparently no special "workaround" is necessary. The only thing I had to do to solve the issue was open "preferences" under the "Edit" menu and change one simple entry. Where it says "Temporary Directory". Create a directory path for that field and the problem should be resolved (it was for me).

what I am seeing is if you change anything in settings close and open bless the settings are not getting saved

cannot save edited file and changes in settings also not saving.
ubuntu 16.04 x64 kernel 4.6.2-040602-generic.

Yes... #2, mine installed with no path to temp.

I followed synjystyc's advice from 2015-12-27. At first I typed in the temp directory path by hand like ~/tmp/bless, and when I'd press save, it'd crash the app. Changing it to /home/tylercollier/tmp/bless worked. Thanks!