Hi,
We're having a randomly occuring issue with saving SW Assembly files into the vault. This is what's been happening: after creating an assmebly and going through the SAVE AS process, my engineers have noticed that randomly not all of these files are actually being saved into the vault, rather they're existing in a hidden local state (which you only discover, after flipping the SEE ALL FILES in the Admin tools). There doesn't seem to be any particular reason why some files SAVE AS just fine into the vault and some don't, however we currently only seem to be having this issue with .sldasm files. We've managed to circumnavigate this issue two ways: 1 . by saving to the desktop, and then saving from there to the vault, 2. Dumb luck. With one occurance I tried SAVE AS 7 times, on the 8th time it worked fine.
Can someone point me in the right direction?
Thank you
Alexandra
Alexandra,
This was a problem in EPDM 2012, I thought it was resolved but the SPR (646713) says it's still open. Here's the workaround from there (it's not terribly helpful):
Workaround: Use "save" instead of "save as" when saving a new assembly or drawing. A dialog shows where you can select "do not save read-only documents" to avoid the extra warning dialogs showing up. New file will be added correctly. For files that ended up local, browse to the file in Explorer, right-click (RMB), Add to File Vault, reopen in SolidWorks and resave if needed. Note: Same proplem can happen if making assembly or drawing from files opened in older SW format.