Answers.Body: <p>The changes are not being saved because the settings are being overridden by civicrm.settings.php</p>
  
  <p>To improve this we have made a <a href="https://issues.civicrm.org/jira/browse/CRM-21777" rel="nofollow noreferrer">PR</a> to help clarify to the user what is happening by providing a pop up message saying "Fields Inputs loaded as 'readonly' as they have been set (overridden) in civicrm_settings.php"</p>
  
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Answers.Text: This has now been added to 5.x
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Body: <p>On some sites Civi gives users a warning about 'Directory Paths: Make them portable' and the warning directs them to the Directories page to fix them.</p>
  
  <p>The user makes the changes and saves them, but may find the System Status warning remains - so they go back and look in Directories and guess what, the changes have not been saved</p>
  
  <p>Why does this happen and what can be done to reduce the frustration of this?</p>
  
Tags: <civicrm.settings.php>
Title: Why does setting my Directories or Resources not save?
ThreadText: # Why does setting my Directories or Resources not save?
  
  (Asked by: username_0 on 2018-02-18)
  
  On some sites Civi gives users a warning about 'Directory Paths: Make them portable' and the warning directs them to the Directories page to fix them.
  
  The user makes the changes and saves them, but may find the System Status warning remains - so they go back and look in Directories and guess what, the changes have not been saved
  
  Why does this happen and what can be done to reduce the frustration of this?
  
  **Tags:** civicrm.settings.php
  
  
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  ## 1 answers
  
  ### Answer by username_0 on 2018-02-18. Score: 1
  
  The changes are not being saved because the settings are being overridden by civicrm.settings.php
  
  To improve this we have made a [PR](https://issues.civicrm.org/jira/browse/CRM-21777) to help clarify to the user what is happening by providing a pop up message saying "Fields Inputs loaded as 'readonly' as they have been set (overridden) in civicrm\_settings.php"
  
  > **Comments:**
  > **username_0**: This has now been added to 5.x  
  
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