topic Re: Cannot Save PLN file error in Installation & update

Cannot Save PLN file error

Anonymous — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 03:30:29 GMT

All,
I am trying to see if others have the same problem while savinf the pln file.
The error while working is :(CANNOT SAVE PLN FILE). I have administrator rights for everything and the folder is not read only.
I have to exit without saving and pick up from the last autosave. I cannot even do a save as of the file. This really stinks.

Anyone???

Thank you

Best,
DDJUSA

Re: Cannot Save PLN file error

Barry Kelly — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 06:52:13 GMT

Do you have a commercial licence or a demo version - demo can't save?
If commercial is your key working or is it maybe running in demo mode.

Are you saving to your local hard drive or a network drive?

Barry.

Re: Cannot Save PLN file error

Anonymous — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 16:24:33 GMT

I have the commercial full version and I am saving it into my hard drive

Re: Cannot Save PLN file error

Erika Epstein — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 16:26:54 GMT

What did you do in the file between the last autosave and when you could no longer save?
Are you in TW?

Re: Cannot Save PLN file error

Anonymous — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 17:34:34 GMT

Did you try "Save as..." to a different location?

I have usually seen this problem when there is a change in the file name or the path name while ArchiCAD is running. It doesn't sound like this applies in your case but perhaps there are some details missing.

Re: Cannot Save PLN file error

Anonymous — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 18:06:10 GMT

Well,
I stopped working in Archicad for lunch and when I got back I couldn't save the file anymore. I tried save as but didn't work.
It sounds like there is a bug on autosave or something.

THX
DDJUSA

Re: Cannot Save PLN file error

Barry Kelly — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 01:43:13 GMT

I don't think this will be the problem but when you do a "Save As" make sure the file type is set to PLN.
A couple of times I have saved as a different format and wondered why the PLN wasn't updating.

If you can't "Save As" to your desktop then there is something very wrong.
Can you save from other programs or create a new text file or folder without any trouble to the same place you are trying to save your Archicad file?
If you can there is a problem with Archicad (all I can think is it is in demo mode).
If not then there is a problem with your PC / permissions.

Have you tried shutting down the PC completely and restarting?

Barry.

Re: Cannot Save PLN file error

Barry Kelly — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 01:45:40 GMT

DDJUSA wrote:
Well,
It sounds like there is a bug on autosave or something.

Autosave has nothing to do with the manual saving of a file so I don't think the problem is there.

Barry.

Re: Cannot Save PLN file error

Anonymous — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 05:11:16 GMT

I can make folders and files into the same directory. The error did not appear for now but I am hoping it doesn't appear again.
Otherwise I will let you guys know and definately calling GS.....

Thank you for all the responses.

THX

DDJUSA

Re: Cannot Save PLN file error

Anonymous — Wed, 26 May 2010 08:12:48 GMT

i had the same problem reading you cannot save this file,it also came up after i had left pc idle while printing , i tried a number of things save as to different location , different name etc.then i tried saving it as a twelve file in a different location which worked . the only thing i lost was a stairs object which i created in 13. i re opened it 13 then with no problems.

Re: Cannot Save PLN file error

Anonymous — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 15:09:09 GMT

We have been running into this problem as well. It is intermittent. We are saving to a SAN disk. ArchiCAD will create the ACScratch.tmp file, but can't complete the save. Never ran into this in 12.

Re: Cannot Save PLN file error

Greg Kmethy — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 16:11:33 GMT

We have seen file saving problems in two distinctly different scenarios (not saying there could not be any others than this):

- When ArchiCAD was running for a long time without restarting. Long times would mean weeks. This is pretty rare, but we were unable to track down what causes it so far. We suspect something happens to ArchiCAD's temporary databases or permissions.
- When you are saving to a network location where data is transferred with special HW/SW that accelerates network trafic. As Michael points out ARchiCAD first saves a .tmp file, then writes data in this file, and if that was successful, will rename the old PLN to BPN and the TMP to filename.PLN. In some network scenarios ArchiCAD can not rename the TMP file because another process already grabbed the file and will not let ArchiCAD access it.

Whatever is the case, do contact your local support if you experience this. The FastLogger logs will help us track down what happened. These logs keep track of everything that happens with the files. Their location is documented in this wiki article: http://archicadwiki.com/FastLogger

Re: Cannot Save PLN file error

Anonymous — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 10:05:50 GMT

Hello.

I am really new to both this forum, and also to ArchiCad (I am running ArchiCAD 13). I am posting on behalf of my partner, who alerted me to the fact that her project that she saved in pln format the night before last,was now only a ACScratch.TMP file. i have found that there is a good chance that the pln file failed to save correctly, hence the TMP file.

From the posts that I have read on this forum, there are suggestions that the auto save functionality that is built into ArchiCad might not neccessarly in every case be working as designed

As she has around 1 day of work that could be inline to being lost, if I cannot somehow managed to get the pln file back to a workable state.

what are the steps that I need to go through to rebuild this project.. or is that not possible at this stage..??

Any help or advise would be greatly appreciated.

Cheers David

Re: Cannot Save PLN file error

Laszlo Nagy — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 11:21:13 GMT

Check out this article for the solution:

http://www.archicadwiki.com/TechNotes/No%20auto-saved%20file%20after%20crash

Re: Cannot Save PLN file error

Anonymous — Sun, 15 Aug 2010 18:39:10 GMT

Thanks for the reply laszlonagy

It turns out that the autosave feature is pointing to a file path that we are unable to get to, because of group policy restriction on the network, that prevent this. nice....

thanks anyhow for the link, ArchiCAD looks quite a nice product, and certainly thiis exposure alone has made me think that I would like to learn more of it..

so thanks

cheers
David

Re: Cannot Save PLN file error

Brett Brown — Sun, 15 Aug 2010 21:58:02 GMT

dhibbard wrote:
ArchiCAD looks quite a nice product, and certainly thiis exposure alone has made me think that I would like to learn more of it..

If you are seriously looking at an Architectual Cad program you would be better served with looking at Revit. For new users it is easier to learn, more logical in its way of working and doesn't need Add-ons to get the job done. Spend a bit of time and read the many threads here to get a better idea of how Archicad doesn't work.