ZufDraw Posted February 11, 2021 Share Posted February 11, 2021 (Recent replies to this old thread split by mod for attention by staff) Same here... in 1.9. Mojave. Save Failed... It is dropbox related here because I could save it outside dropbox. After reopening the issue dissapeared Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Henrik Asteberg Posted March 3, 2021 Share Posted March 3, 2021 Hi everyone! Sorry to say that this issue is still present in 2021. I've been working on a document (on iCloud Drive) and today I got the message that I can't save my file. The program at one point shut down by itself and I feared that all my work had been lost, thankfully I was able to open the file from the Finders-app again and with all my work intact. This issue is really frustrating, there should be a warning or some technical solution on the backend that prevents this from happening, we should be able to work on files from external drives and the cloud without worrying about this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PotatoCarl Posted March 3, 2021 Share Posted March 3, 2021 Does not work on Windows either (no save on network drive). This is extremely annoying and *not* explainable by any excuse. There is no other program I have ever used that has a problem with saving files to a network share. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ncJohn Posted March 4, 2021 Share Posted March 4, 2021 It's happening also in Photo 1.9.1.979 on Windows 10 Pro 64-bit, trying to save to a local disk. It's actually been going on for a few weeks now, intermittently, and has finally gotten to the point that I looked it up and found this thread. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
psheld Posted March 7, 2021 Share Posted March 7, 2021 Working on a 10MB file on an iCloud sync'd local folder. Same problem as listed here. Cannot now save the past three hours work. Really. What's the fix? This is seriously not a good look. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vivera Posted March 7, 2021 Share Posted March 7, 2021 It just happened to me and the solution proposed by previous post worked. There is an image that is the culprit somehow. So I created new a new file and moved my files section by section, doing SAVE after each move. When it get to the problem image I inserted, it failed to save. So I just move everything without that image, and everything can be saved. I also work locally when this happened. Not sure yet why the image created the problem. But removing that part allowed my work to be saved. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
psheld Posted March 8, 2021 Share Posted March 8, 2021 Thanks @vivera but it's just happened to me again. The file above was a Publisher file with some images. This one is a Designer file with no images at all. This never happened to me before the 1.9 update (related?) but now I've lost a total of 5.5 hours work. This truly sucks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oakandpine Posted March 25, 2021 Share Posted March 25, 2021 Yup, still happening. I am new to Affinity, and it was going great. Until. I really don't understand how such a fundamental bug can be allowed to persist. I am working entirely on my local drive - no shared folders involved. I can find no explanation, and no fix. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ncJohn Posted March 28, 2021 Share Posted March 28, 2021 It happened again today, with a new twist: I had to shut down quickly because of bad weather and when I couldn't get my Photo files to save, I tried exporting TIFs with Affinity layers. It seemed to work okay (no error messages) so I shut the pc down. But when I opened the TIFs later they all had only one layer. Doing all my work with one local disk, an SSD. I don't know enough about SSDs to know if this is relevant, but... I've been using Photo since 2017 and this problem of not being able to save my work has been happening only recently. I don't know exactly when it started but I know it's been since I got an SSD in mid-January. FWIW. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ambator Posted March 28, 2021 Share Posted March 28, 2021 I have just encountered this problem now, three days after starting to work with this app. At the moment I am in trial mode and not sure if there is a future in learning this program, if there is such difficulty saving on the internal Mac system. My first, unfinished Design document was saved on the Desktop and I cannot continue working on it unless it can be saved. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ambator Posted March 28, 2021 Share Posted March 28, 2021 It appears that I may have found a simple solution by happenstance. I opened a new document, trying to transfer one by one the elements to find the faulty one. But as I saved the original as an other file name, the same file under a new name was ready to be saved at every step afterwards. So, saving under a new name may be the answer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ncJohn Posted March 28, 2021 Share Posted March 28, 2021 2 hours ago, Ambator said: It appears that I may have found a simple solution by happenstance. I opened a new document, trying to transfer one by one the elements to find the faulty one. But as I saved the original as an other file name, the same file under a new name was ready to be saved at every step afterwards. So, saving under a new name may be the answer. That doesn't work for me in Photo. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Julru Posted May 4, 2021 Share Posted May 4, 2021 I am working with students and the file Problem happens so often!!! It’s impossible to save the files (which were successfully saved in the drive before)... please get a solution! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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