Can't seem to save drawing..

Hi,

A few collegues at work have experienced the following error messages....

'One or more objects in this drawing cannot be saved to the specified format. The operation was not completed and no file was created...'

The only remedy seems to be to reboot the computer but thats not a great option as they lose work. We cant seem to track down the culprit objects. Does anyone know what could be causing this and how to get around it..

We are using Acad 2010 by the way and have tried saving to various formats of dwg file..

Any ideas..

Can you save the drawing to your local computer under a different name?

Yeah sometimes, one of them has tried to SaveAs, which works, but not all the time and also, this means a lot of saving the drawing as something, then next time saving as back to the original name..

When was the last time all the *.TMP files were cleaned off the server?

Do you get x-refs from other sources? Created with other cad-packages? Or files from later versions of Autocad?

I'm thinking that since you use ACAD 2008, its complaining about objects created in MagiCAD or ADT for instance, or objects specific for AutoCAD 09-10.

If you and another coworker are working on two different drawings but each references the same set of xrefs then it could be a Demand Loading Xref problem.

Hi Everyone, thanks for your replies. Turns out it was because our server was almost full to the brim. My AutoCAD started doing the same and even the accounts ppl's computers were flagging up errors in word and excel - so a massive clear out in order me thinks lol. Thanks again everyone

So I was semi-correct in suggesting cleaning out all *.TMP files?

Hi, a user in our office is having the same issue. But it is certainly not due to the server being almost full (still has 240GB free). Any other suggestions. Will try clearing the .tmp files and get back with the results.

Are xrefs involved?

Temporarily turn off your anti-virus program then try saving. What happens?

It only happened with one drawing, he did a save as and is working fine at the mo. yes there are xrefs involved. But xrefs are involved in all our drawings excluding the xrefs themselves (in most cases). Because it is working now I cannot test it anymore.

Thanks for the reply though. If it happens again I'll post a thread.