6 Replies Latest reply on Jul 18, 2018 12:33 PM by M. D.

Solidworks 2018 refuses to save on occasion as if it has forgotten how.

Josh Bacic Jun 28, 2018 5:11 AM

Since upgrading to Solidworks 2018 i have had a rather annoying and extremely time consuming bug that is impacting my productivity. On occasion after adding 30+ parts to an assembly or drawing up 5 - 10 pages of drawings i realise that 'ctrl + s' has been doing nothing the entire time I've been working. If i click 'file > save' or 'file > save as', solidworks does absolutely nothing. Its as if it has forgotten how to save. There is no dialog box, no error message, not even a loading mouse pointer.

Whats worse is, it doesnt tell me its not working. so 8 years of experience in pressing ctrl + s has always saved me but now 2018 just carries on merrily not saving and I'm forced at the end to close Solidworks without saving and starting over again. It only happens every 5 - 10 drawings or assemblies so i never remember to check that it hasn't saved.

Why has solidworks forgotten how to save?

NOTE: I have reinstalled Solidworks and have moved from sp2 to sp3

Re: Solidworks 2018 refuses to save on occasion as if it has forgotten how.

Dan Golthing Jun 28, 2018 10:58 AM (in response to Josh Bacic)

Josh, what happens whey you "save as" a copy? If this works maybe it will at least save your work until you get with your VAR to troubleshoot.
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  Josh Bacic Jun 29, 2018 4:13 AM (in response to Dan Golthing)
  
  I don't even get the choice to choose save types. I don't get passed the save button in file drop down.
  
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Re: Solidworks 2018 refuses to save on occasion as if it has forgotten how.

Michael Lord Jun 28, 2018 6:02 PM (in response to Josh Bacic)

Josh
I don't think this is a common issue with SOLIDWORKS.
I use Ctrl+S to save without a problem in SOLIDWORKS 2018 SP3 on three different computers.

Could it be as simple as an issue with your keyboard?
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  Josh Bacic Jun 29, 2018 4:13 AM (in response to Michael Lord)
  
  Na I can't click file>save our file>save as. It's literally that my Solidworks forgets how to save sometimes*
  
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    Bill Stadler Jul 17, 2018 3:00 PM (in response to Josh Bacic)
    
    We saw something similar to this and tracked it down to a dismissed message. If I recall it had to do with saving and the message was something like The references are older versions and will be converted. Because the reference files were not checked out the user thought it might try to save them anyway so they pick No to Do You Want To Save Anyway and also pick Don't Ask Me Again. Now every time he did a save in an assembly it no longer saved. Why they would allow this as a do not ask me again option...
    
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      M. D. Jul 18, 2018 12:33 PM (in response to Bill Stadler)
      
      Pretty funny. But not funny if you are affected.
      
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