DominicJ Posted December 5, 2022 Share Posted December 5, 2022 Help! Just finished designing a document and can't save it! I can save a PDF version but not the afdesign file. I'm given the following reason: "Save failed because the file could not be written to." I've switched from an external drive to my internal documents folder in case it was permissions but to no avail. It does leave an empty file in the directory with zero bytes. Also the preview of the export is broken up and not showing everything clearly. I'm on an M1 Macbook Pro, running Montery 12.6.1 with Version 2.0.0 of Designer. Thanks Dominic Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
markw Posted December 5, 2022 Share Posted December 5, 2022 Exporting as a PDF is a good fallback option, but not ideal I agree. Can you make and save a new empty document of the required size on your internal drive? If yes, then next, can you copy & paste the contents of the original file into the new blank one and save it? Quote macOS 12.7.6 | 15" Macbook Pro, 2017 | 4 Core i7 3.1GHz CPU | Radeon Pro 555 2GB GPU + Integrated Intel HD Graphics 630 1.536GB | 16GB RAM | Wacom Intuos4 M Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul Mudditt Posted December 5, 2022 Share Posted December 5, 2022 Can you try using the “save as” option maybe to your desktop? Quote Affinity Photo, Designer, Publisher 1.10 and 2.5 on macOS 15.0 Beta Sequoia on M1 Mac Mini 16GB 1TB Affinity Photo, Designer, Publisher 1.10 and 2.5 on Windows 10 Pro. (revived !) Affinity Photo, Designer, Publisher 2.5 on M1 iPad Pro 11” on iPadOS beta 18(22A5326f) https://www.facebook.com/groups/AffinityForiPad https://www.facebook.com/groups/AffinityPhoto/ https://www.facebook.com/groups/affinityphotoastrophotography The hardest link to find https://affinity.help Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DominicJ Posted December 5, 2022 Author Share Posted December 5, 2022 35 minutes ago, markw said: Exporting as a PDF is a good fallback option, but not ideal I agree. Can you make and save a new empty document of the required size on your internal drive? If yes, then next, can you copy & paste the contents of the original file into the new blank one and save it? Hi Mark, Yes, I just did this. Created a new blank document, saved it, then copied the contents over and it saved okay. This worked on both the internal and external drive. Phew! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DominicJ Posted December 5, 2022 Author Share Posted December 5, 2022 1 minute ago, Paul Mudditt said: Can you try using the “save as” option maybe to your desktop? Hi Paul, It was something wrong with this document. I create a new one, saved it blank, then added the graphics over and it saved fine. Very odd. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
markw Posted December 5, 2022 Share Posted December 5, 2022 6 minutes ago, DominicJ said: ...it saved okay... Very glad to hear it!😎 Quote macOS 12.7.6 | 15" Macbook Pro, 2017 | 4 Core i7 3.1GHz CPU | Radeon Pro 555 2GB GPU + Integrated Intel HD Graphics 630 1.536GB | 16GB RAM | Wacom Intuos4 M Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DominicJ Posted December 6, 2022 Author Share Posted December 6, 2022 Saving problem is back again! A new version of the design with the same elements in. I can see an "[M]" next to the file name at the top, is this a clue as to what is going wrong? I have an element within the design that was opened as an embedded graphic, anything to do with this? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DominicJ Posted December 6, 2022 Author Share Posted December 6, 2022 Okay, so I've narrowed it down. I've rebuilt the document, copied over each set of layers, saved, same again. Then when I tried copying over a layer with masked group inside it stopped saving. I went back and broke the masked group apart and copied each layer within over, saved. Then I found the item stopping the saving, it is an embedded graphic that I had opened, copied the parts from, created a new document, pasted then in, and saved it as I wanted to use different colours within it and keep the original. I'm thinking it's this copied graphics from within the embedded graphic that for some reason it's not linking too (which I'd have thought it shouldn't need to as it's a new document. I'm going to try building this part from scratch again and will report back. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DominicJ Posted December 6, 2022 Author Share Posted December 6, 2022 It worked! This time I opened the original graphic, duplicated it, saved the colour changes, then placed it back into the document and grouped with the masked elements and it now saves again. Is this a Designer Version 2 bug? The files are living on an external NMVe drive, the graphic elements are from a Dropbox drive (saved offline). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ronditlesauvage Posted December 10, 2022 Share Posted December 10, 2022 I have been having the same problem today - no idea what is going on. I followed the process outlined above, it worked to save my work, but WHY should I have to do this? Affinity folk, fix this problem, please!f Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff Gabe Posted December 19, 2022 Staff Share Posted December 19, 2022 Sorry for the delayed reply. We believe we have fixed this issue in the latest beta. Could you please give it a go? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DominicJ Posted December 19, 2022 Author Share Posted December 19, 2022 How do I access this, My software update says I'm already on the current version. Thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted December 19, 2022 Share Posted December 19, 2022 8 minutes ago, DominicJ said: How do I access this, My software update says I'm already on the current version. Thanks You can find it in a pinned post at the top of the appropriate Beta Forum. Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. Laptop 2: Windows 11 Pro 24H2, 16GB memory, Snapdragon(R) X Elite - X1E80100 - Qualcomm(R) Oryon(TM) 12 Core CPU 4.01 GHz, Qualcomm(R) Adreno(TM) X1-85 GPU iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 17.7, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sonoma 14.7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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