evtonic3 Posted October 4, 2018 Share Posted October 4, 2018 What does it mean when it says File could not be written to? It won't save is all I know. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Rostron Posted October 5, 2018 Share Posted October 5, 2018 What program? What OS? Did you open an existing file or create one from new? We really need more information to offer you any help. John Quote Windows 11, Affinity Photo 2.4.2 Designer 2.4.2 and Publisher 2.4.2 (mainly Photo). CPU: Intel Core i5 8500 @ 3.00GHz. RAM: 32.0GB DDR4 @ 1063MHz, Graphics: 2047MB NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
evtonic3 Posted October 5, 2018 Author Share Posted October 5, 2018 Mac Affinity Photo, opened a saved file on a thumb drive worked on it all day saving periodically, but the last final version of artwork gave me this message. It saves the filename onto the local mac drive but the file size is zero. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Rostron Posted October 5, 2018 Share Posted October 5, 2018 I'm not a Mac person, so I do not know about Mac foibles. You say that you saved the file periodically. Were these to the thumb drive or the hard disk? Do these intermediate files still exist? John Quote Windows 11, Affinity Photo 2.4.2 Designer 2.4.2 and Publisher 2.4.2 (mainly Photo). CPU: Intel Core i5 8500 @ 3.00GHz. RAM: 32.0GB DDR4 @ 1063MHz, Graphics: 2047MB NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fixx Posted October 6, 2018 Share Posted October 6, 2018 Usually that message means that disk (thumb drive in this case) is full. Save as to another volume. Using a thumb drive as work drive is bad idea to begin with, they are slow and not very trustworthy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alfred Posted October 6, 2018 Share Posted October 6, 2018 1 hour ago, Fixx said: Using a thumb drive as work drive is bad idea to begin with, they are slow and not very trustworthy. Using any kind of networked storage directly is a bad idea in general and with the Affinity apps in particular, because of the potential consequences of even a brief break in the connection. It’s much safer to use a local fixed drive as working storage and then transfer the document on completion. Quote Alfred Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for Windows • Windows 10 Home/Pro Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for iPad • iPadOS 17.5.1 (iPad 7th gen) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
R C-R Posted October 6, 2018 Share Posted October 6, 2018 4 hours ago, αℓƒяє∂ said: Using any kind of networked storage directly is a bad idea in general and with the Affinity apps in particular, because of the potential consequences of even a brief break in the connection. It’s much safer to use a local fixed drive as working storage and then transfer the document on completion. USB thumb drives aren't networked storage but like @Fixx said, they are slow & not all that reliable, particularly as they age & are repeatedly written to. Quote All 3 1.10.8, & all 3 V2.5.5 Mac apps; 2020 iMac 27"; 3.8GHz i7, Radeon Pro 5700, 32GB RAM; macOS 10.15.7 All 3 V2 apps for iPad; 6th Generation iPad 32 GB; Apple Pencil; iPadOS 15.7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alfred Posted October 6, 2018 Share Posted October 6, 2018 1 hour ago, R C-R said: USB thumb drives aren't networked storage My bad. I should have said “remote or removable”. Quote Alfred Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for Windows • Windows 10 Home/Pro Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for iPad • iPadOS 17.5.1 (iPad 7th gen) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
R C-R Posted October 6, 2018 Share Posted October 6, 2018 20 minutes ago, αℓƒяє∂ said: My bad. I should have said “remote or removable”. Even that may not cover all the (relatively) safe possibilities since technically any external locally-connected drive is removable & could become disconnected. At least for Macs, that includes booting from an external drive over a high speed connection like USB 3 or Thunderbolt. Some users do that for example so they can run different versions of the Mac OS on the same Mac or the same version configured differently without changes to one boot drive affecting the other(s). Admittedly, that is an edge case but one that isn't is running a Mac with a relatively small internal SSD with little available room for storing large document files, even temporarily. With all that in mind, I think the best advise is to avoid using anything unreliable for working storage, which would include thumb drives & any other external storage device if the connection isn't stable. Quote All 3 1.10.8, & all 3 V2.5.5 Mac apps; 2020 iMac 27"; 3.8GHz i7, Radeon Pro 5700, 32GB RAM; macOS 10.15.7 All 3 V2 apps for iPad; 6th Generation iPad 32 GB; Apple Pencil; iPadOS 15.7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
firstdefence Posted October 6, 2018 Share Posted October 6, 2018 I have one of the older Airport Time Capsules with a 3TB HDD, I got it from a customer who'd replaced it with the newer tower time capsules. I repaired it by cooking the circuit board it in the oven for a while; they had a dry joint issue, anyway it worked and is running well a year after I cooked it. I also find MEGA a good cloud backup option in addition to other backup options. Quote iMac 27" 2019 Sequoia 15.0 (24A335), iMac 27" Affinity Designer, Photo & Publisher V1 & V2, Adobe, Inkscape, Vectorstyler, Blender, C4D, Sketchup + more... XP-Pen Artist-22E, - iPad Pro 12.9 (Please refrain from licking the screen while using this forum) Affinity Help - Affinity Desktop Tutorials - Feedback - FAQ - most asked questions Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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