Databricks Editor in Azure - cannot edit code properly

Question

My Azure Databricks notebook editor was working fine until yesterday evening.

Since then, any attempts to amend the code are not reflected in what I see on screen. If I try to delete some characters, different characters further along the line are deleted. Essentially the cursor is not acting where it is being displayed.

I have closed notebooks, logged out complete from AZD - restarted computes, left it overnight and the same thing is happening this morning.

and it seems that changes I do make are not being reflected at run time. so, if I change a print statement to display some different text and rerun the code, it still shows the previous print output and not the new amended but messy print out.

Answer 1

The file Import issue has been resolved by our Security team - hopefully, the file open has also been resolved - time will tell.

Answer 2

@Anonymous - I'm glad that you were able to resolve your issue and thank you for posting your solution so that others experiencing the same thing can easily reference this! Since the Microsoft Q&A community has a policy that "The question author cannot accept their own answer. They can only accept answers by others ", I'll repost your solution in case you'd like to accept the answer .

Issue: Databricks Editor in Azure - cannot edit code properly

Since then, any attempts to amend the code are not reflected in what I see on screen. If I try to delete some characters, different characters further along the line are deleted. Essentially the cursor is not acting where it is being displayed.

I have closed notebooks, logged out complete from AZD - restarted computes, left it overnight and the same thing is happening this morning.

and it seems that changes I do make are not being reflected at run time. so, if I change a print statement to display some different text and rerun the code, it still shows the previous print output and not the new amended but messy print out.

Solution: The file Import issue has been resolved by our Security team - hopefully, the file open has also been resolved - time will tell.

If I missed anything please let me know and I'd be happy to add it to my answer, or feel free to comment below with any additional information.

I hope this helps!

If you have any other questions, please let me know. Thank you again for your time and patience throughout this issue.

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Answer 3

There is still the other issues of code changes not being saved in a timely manner...

I can make changes to some code - rerun the associated job and its still running the old code.
Sometimes the code is save immediately, sometimes the 'Last edited ....' time shows several minutes ago - even if I have made a change more recently.
Since there is no File->Save option - I have to force the save by clicking the 'Last Edited .....' link and pressing the Save button.