thisldo Posted April 7, 2018 Share Posted April 7, 2018 Created in Affinity Designer v1.6.4.104. Problem: I made this picture this morning and saved changes along the way as I usually do. I finally finished and did one last save (I thought) ...gave it a name...and saved as an .afdesign. Puttered around with other things for awhile....took a look at this one again and noticed that I had not added whiskers to the mouse on the bottom. I opened the image, ungrouped ....made the change to the whiskers, regrouped and attempted to save and got this notice. Then I tried to "save as" with a slight name change....got the same notice. Eventually I was able to group and export but was still unable to save the changes as an .afdesign image.. I seem to have developed the problem with this version of AD as I do not remember getting it with other versions. My question is it something I am inadvertently doing...or not doing? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff Leigh Posted April 8, 2018 Staff Share Posted April 8, 2018 Which location are you trying to save to? Are you saving to a backup/sync location such as Dropbox, Google Drive etc? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thisldo Posted April 8, 2018 Author Share Posted April 8, 2018 Trying to save to my documents folder on an external drive, which is my usual place to keep all my drawings in progress. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IanSG Posted April 8, 2018 Share Posted April 8, 2018 Are you trying to overwrite a file that's already open? Can you output to a different filename? Quote AP, AD & APub user, running Win10 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thisldo Posted April 8, 2018 Author Share Posted April 8, 2018 No, I tried several times to give it a different name and got the same notice with each attempt. I even tried to see if I could save it to a different folder and also got the failed to save banner. I finally grouped all together and exported it as a .png but now I am unable to make any changes, which I had been able to do before. This is the first time I have received a notice like this and I have been using AD since the beta stages. I appreciate all the feedback and trying to help me solve this issue. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff Leigh Posted April 10, 2018 Staff Share Posted April 10, 2018 Have you tried saving to your desktop or local disk? You could also try creating a snapshot of the document in the Snapshots panel and then create a new document from the snapshot. You can then see if you're able to save this new version of the file. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thisldo Posted April 10, 2018 Author Share Posted April 10, 2018 No, that is something I did not try to do Leigh, mainly because the snapshot feature is something I really did not know about. Now I will explore that and see if it could be a solution. Very appreciative of your help and hope it will help me to resolve this issue. Sadly I cannot seem to do anything about the above image as far as further changes but it may indeed help if this comes up again as it has a couple of times in the past. Those times the image was not nearly so far along and I didn't really lose any work as I did this time. Am off to investigate the snapshot feature. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff MEB Posted April 10, 2018 Staff Share Posted April 10, 2018 Hi thisldo, Did you open that file directly from the external drive to work on it? We don't recommend opening/working directly from external/NAS drives/cloud services as Affinity may lose the connection with the drive for some reason or the file may become corrupted due to the sync service. Quote A Guide to Learning Affinity Software Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thisldo Posted April 10, 2018 Author Share Posted April 10, 2018 Good morning MEB, Yes, I did save to and attempt to open from an external drive. This sounds reasonable ....and probable ...to me. I did not think of the loss of connection possibility and the resulting possible corruption actually but it certainly is something to consider. After a hard drive crash a while ago resulting in considerable expense to reclaim some work, I set up an external drive. At first I was saving work to both, but lately I find I am remiss in saving to the hard drive and go directly to the external to save/retrieve. Since this "fail to save" has occurred several more times recently....both with much smaller images and less layers and after I have been away from the desk for a short period in which there was no activity, I am tending to think you have nailed the problem. At any rate it has given me something with which to work as to solving it. Thanks so much! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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