Failed to save document

[MikeTO]

I decided to try real work in the beta and after an hour or so I got a save failure. I don't know if it's beta related or not but I haven't had a save failure in ages. I'd done nothing interesting since my last incremental save except for editing text and copying and pasting one inline image. I was saving to iCloud (which I always do) but saving to a local drive didn't make a difference, it just created a 0 byte file.

Hopefully it's a one off but I'm mentioning it in case it's not an isolated incident.

EDIT: I should add for others that doing real work in a beta is at our own risk. I choose to accept the risk so I can give it a good workout but I save and back up frequently in case I run into an issue like this.

Edited April 19 by MikeTO

[MikeTO]

I had this save failure again just now. I'm updating the screenshots for the updated panels in my manual. All I'd done since the last save was overwrite an inline image (grouped) which updated automatically, double-clicked the group and moved a couple of the callouts and callout lines. Deselected the group and saved.

Again I couldn't save the file to a local drive and had to close it. I restarted Publisher for good measure but that may have been unnecessary.

I hadn't had any save failures in 2.4 or 2.3, and probably not since the early 2.0 versions, so there's something going on with the beta. I wonder if it could be related to the recovery prompts. I had been prompted to recover the file when I opened it but declined since I knew I'd saved and closed it properly.

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[MikeTO]

It happened again just now. The only thing I'd done since opening the file (my Publisher manual) was delete many small paragraphs (I'm editing a long list in an appendix). I didn't do anything with any images or linked resources.

I tried closing and re-opening the document to save it under another name but that failed, I had to restart Publisher.

[MikeTO]

And again just now. This time I was copying and pasting text from the end of paragraphs to the start of paragraphs, for a dozen paragraphs in a row - they're fake tables made up of tabbed text and I was changing the order of the "columns". No images involved.

I wish the recovery prompt issue would strike when this happens but it never has. Fortunately, I save so often that I can just copy what I've edited to a new document, save it, and restart Publisher to retrieve it.

[ronnyb]

I've gotten this error as well

[ronnyb]

not sure if this is the same error but seems related. trying to open file from last beta into current beta... i can upload file via private dropbox link...

 

[MikeTO]

A clue. Most of the time when I get the recovery version prompt (https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/202721-recovery-version-prompt/) it's for a throwaway test document and I ignore it, but I also get it a lot with my real documents. I've been paying more attention and for all of the save failures I had yesterday and today, and there were enough to form a pattern, they were preceded by the recovery version prompt. Perhaps these two issues have the same root cause?

[MikeTO]

I know not many people are reporting this but they may not be doing real work in the beta. I experience a save failure with the 2.5 beta and lose work several times a day, something I hadn't really experienced in the past year. I haven't been able to find a repeatable series of steps to trigger it.

[ronnyb]

It's definitely happened to me several times as well...