Hello. I am getting this message each time before saving my project. I have the feeling it tells me that “autosave” does or did not work. I haven’t changed directory. [whatISthisMESSAGEeachWHENiCLICKsaveITpopsUPbeforeITsavesORbeforeAUTOsaving] Thank you.

Not sure but maybe your filename is too long…

Do you use cloud storage to save your data so that synchronisation errors can occur?

[image] tweenulzeven: maybe your filename is too long… I think total path length is 256 characters, but it’s been a long time since I’ve used a Windows machine. OP- Why is it trying to save to ‘recovered’ files? Where are you saving your working copies? - and how do you manage that file name? I mean, it’s good to know there are 2CLAMS and no Sidewalks, but perhaps there is a better way?

[image] CFileException 0 in SketchUp It’s usually because the antivirus has locked the file as SketchUp is trying to autosave.

Hi I don’t think so I have used that name for over a month while I make ultimate corrections Thank you

OK thank you I will shorten it Regards

Mmmh I never encountered anything with Microsoft antivirus for WIN11 but I will have my SO look into it I am not creating my own virus …well not yet but maybe I’ll be gaga enough Thank you for your time

Yes I must admit …after two years on a file and near 800 saves one gets rather obsessed loosing something that took x hours to fix My CLAM is a space in my game concept that’s inspired by a giant deep see clam. Just so you know I am not yet in a sort of delirium My initial question was triggered by the fact I noticed that I had shut down my PC and NOT saved and the auto save did not function and lets say I had to redo an entire day’s of stuff. This is a screenshot from within UE 5.4 I wish UE forum was as helpful and kind as SketchUP. They come across rather do I dare say totally void no reply’s to questions or nearly condescending like " Go google it" As always if like myself one does not master all the IT lingo of a software which I don’ there and for sure not in UE., One can google loads and still not get the right answers if the questions weren’t asked correctly. So KUDOS to this Forum as always coming to my help being 55+ (for ever that is haha) I don’t want to change the number some may send me invites to the retirement home . Kind regards [CLAMonlyHighresScreenshot00681]

Hello Sorry I had to distance myself from my project for a while as it was too frustrating . No I don’t use any cloud …I am on the old SKU19 and will attempt to stay with it. Thank you.

Hello I come back to your reply after attempting to find the reason. I went back into my model. This is an attempted for a “game space”. So I have many screens inside that simulate LED screens most show scenes from within my own model but different areas I used to use only Lumion renderings imported as rectangular images pose them on the face then explode them and cut away what’s outside of the irregular frames (round triangular oval etc) They all have a small volume frame around (like a TV) . But since I managed to bring my model into UE 5.4 I thought to use some highres screenshots from UE. When I went back and reopened my SketchUP model and tried to go back to what I was doing last when the message appeared, something happened that was quite surreal, just when I zoomed into that space (actually it was the oval pic left in my screenshot, one of the newly imported picture. It jumped at me like as if all the different colour areas of the image were pulled (pull/push) towards me. I thought how can a photo become a 3D area ? I clicked into it and deleted it as I had one time an “array” that created a crazy amount of star like projection through my entire model. I went back to other pics but naturally none of them allowed me to pull on any part of a photo. (I am not on drugs or hallucinating or going gaga, I am well, just in case someone thinks along that way ) I knew since then that these lines seem to go on for ever in all 360 degree This was different in another way. The pull like extrusions went towards me towards the mouse in a sharply pointed pyramid, and as I zoomed out it followed my mouse through the entire model Could an imported jpg from another software origin like UE bring in like a “corrupted file” [Q_LEDscreensONgalleriaforSKUforum] ? I went back to before I changed all the pictures and that file does NOT show that warning So I will be able to go back one month and start all over again my “last corrections” which were mainly to improve areas that can be turned into light emitters in UE [LIGHTemmitterScreenshot00558] I was happily surprised that the areas defined in SKU as light emitter colours just give the right amount of ambient light in UE rather than installing x amounts of lights here and there. I have made a few other quick models to play around and do not get the error message at all so it seems that something is inside that ONE big model file that keeps on generating that error.

What is this message before saving?

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bmike December 10, 2024, 8:23pm 5

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What is this message before saving?

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