Save File

[dellmonn]

I have a problem when click the save command. The Following error message comes up.

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The problem is intermittent, sometimes it will save without the error, but mostly the error comes up and the file does not save properly.
I have only just started using FreeCAD last week. The file version which the attached error message comes from is 0.16 but I have just
loaded 0.17 and I am getting the same error.
I am very new to FreeCAD and think it is a very exciting program I just hope I can get this save problem solved.

OS: Windows 7
Word size of OS: 64-bit
Word size of FreeCAD: 64-bit
Version: 0.16.6704 (Git)
Build type: Release
Branch: releases/FreeCAD-0-16
Hash: 0c449d7e8f9b2b1fb93e3f8d1865e2f59d7ed253
Python version: 2.7.8
Qt version: 4.8.7
Coin version: 4.0.0a
OCC version: 6.8.0.oce-0.17

Thanks

[DeepSOIC]

Hi!
This is a known problem, but the causes of it are still unknown. There is a fix, though.
See issue #2245

In order to activate this go to the parameter editor and create under "BaseApp/Preferences/Mod/Part/General" the boolean key "DirectAccess" and set it to true.

Hope this helps.

[dellmonn]

Thank you for your reply. I have tried the fix that wmayer suggested but it has not worked.
I am still getting the error message. It will save ok sometimes but more often the not I get the error message.
The models I am creating are not very complicated. FreeCAD is new to me and I am just trying to learn with simple things.

Thanks,

Dell

[jmaustpc]

It looks like your file path contains a directory named with a nonstandard character, perhaps the problem is related to that?

[bejant]

It looks like your file path contains a directory named with a nonstandard character, perhaps the problem is related to that?

Isn't the tilde still a Windows thing; how it truncates long file/directory names?

[dellmonn]

Thank you for your replies.

Yes I agree that the file path looks to contain non standard character but I also agree that it looks like the Windows
truncating long file names, DOS could only have a max of 8 characters.

The strange thing is that it will save the file about 25% of the time, the other 75% I get the error message.

Dell

[dellmonn]

I have found out that the fix suggested by wmayer I did not do correctly.
I have now created the "DirectAccess" key in the correct place, exactly where wmayer said and the Save command
works O.K. without any errors.

Thanks for your help,

Dell