File saving Bricscad v25

Jef_Van_Eyck
Jef_Van_Eyck
in Other

If I make a new drawing in v25 and want to save it I've got the message that it is impossible because it is read only. Somebody can give me a solution for this issue

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  • ALANH
    ALANH

    Are you using a drawing template a DWT file ? Even so a Saveas should fix, if the original dwt has been set to read only.

    If your opening an existing dwg erasing stuff and starting again then the original is probably set to read only. Saveas with new name. I wont go into how to reset "read only" from windows explorer.

  • zoomer
    zoomer

    Or if you are on Mac with 15.2 Sequoia,

    Apple did some changes for Preview that may somehow make Apps thinking Files being in use. Especially on Server drives. In this case it may help to deactivate File Preview in Finder.

    As I am used that Bricscad on Mac often crashes or freezes or crashes when closing, I am also used that most of the time I open an existing file, I get the warning if I want to open it read only or writable. This is when a crashing Bricscad was not able to delete the DWL lock file.
    As you are talking about a new file, the only thing that there is a left DWL file I can imagine would be that you had a former crash with a file that had the same name as your current file and therefore prevents from saving.
    I had this a few times with test files and saving with default untiteled_01.DWG name. For the next Bricscad Session after the crash, a new file will get the same default name.

    But I also remember having had a few problems saving files in V25 where there was no leftover DWL or other plausible reason. As a few times I had to save some files by "save as" with arbitrary suffixes. So not unlikely that there is a bug about saving files in V25 in certain situations.