I am unable to save a style as a separate file or drag it to a collection in the secondary pane. When trying to save the file, SketchUp encounters ‘Error saving style file’. When dragging the style to the secondary pane, it just disappears. Apparently a few people have encountered this problem, b…

Encountered this same issue with Mac SketchUp Pro 2018. The solution/workaround is to make sure you are viewing your styles in the Styles window as thumbnails before performing the official drag and drop action. Drag and drop does nothing if you are viewing the styles as a list. Go figure!

I encountered this issue today and I’m glad I found this thread for the solution. Funny that after all these years this ISSUE (oversight, error, flaw, problem, etc) has not been resolved. I spent a solid half hour or more trying to figure out how to manage a style set for a big project, which should…

I just encountered the same problem with SU 2020 Pro. I just wasted about 20 precious minutes before I gave up and came to the forum and found this thread. As soon as I switched from list view to thumbnails problem solved…I don’t think I will be going sub if silly bugs like this have not been fixed …

4 years later and this is still the workaround for saving styles in SU 2020: need to view as thumbnails. :laughing:

Having the same problem but the drop down window to access the thumbnail views doesn’t exist. Only REFRESH. So I don’t have the option to save a style.

Just found this one…so I’m bumping it. Odd behavior.

I’ve always wondered why it’s a problem to use the thumbnails. It’s the same for saving components via the Components panel.

for me…the noob…I put on small or large thumbnails and there are no titles and now I have to go one by one thru the list to get that mouse-over title so I can find the one I want to use. Component thumbnails make more sense because I can see the component and don’t need the title. If I had control…

I would expect your thumbnails to look different (mine do) unless you have created a bunch that are all the same which you shouldn’t do. Do you end up with lots of styles in a SketchUp project?

Cannot save style or drag it to secondary pane

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LMcDo November 4, 2020, 9:41pm 7

Disregard. Found the option.

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Cannot save style or drag it to secondary pane

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