Patch doesn't save - AC17

[Richard Morrison]

Patches create fine, but when I open the library part, modify the 2D symbol, and then try to save the patch when exiting, it won't let me save. Is this a bug, or is it working differently than AC16?

[David Maudlin]

Richard:

Works as expected here, both when placed in Embedded Library and a loaded Library folder. What exactly is happening when the Patch won't save?

David

[Richard Morrison]

Thanks, David. Sorry I wasn't more clear. The patch creates correctly initially. However, when I later open it and make modifications, and then try to close it, I am prompted, as normal, to save it. But clicking on "Save" has no effect; I can only Cancel or Don't Save.

EDIT: I have tried this on a variety of files - new and old - and Save doesn't work upon reopening after the initial patch creation. I've reported this as a bug.

[Karl Ottenstein]

I'm seeing what you're seeing, Richard. Thought it might be a Mac vs PC issue... but David is on a Mac also... so not sure why it works for him (his OS is older than mine, but not sure why that might matter).

After modifying the 2D of the patch, I try to close the object and get the options to <don't save, cancel, save> and if I click Save, I'm just back at the object window. It will not save and close. Confirmed that it is not even saving as I switched to the 2D window and did a rebuild and the revised 2D did not appear.

Works fine in 16, so this is some new bug in 17. Thanks for reporting it.

[David Maudlin]

Richard & Karl:

Just tried again and not experiencing this issue. Are you able to Save As... the Patch Object? Yes, not ideal, a workaround for now.

David

[troakie45]

Anybody got to the bottom of this one? Tried every possible variation - and its driving me nuts! Presumably a bug.

Perhaps I should add - AC 17, Win 7 64 bit.

[Karl Ottenstein]

Seems like this is OS-dependent, then. I'll report it. If anyone else would like to test and post their OS and results, that might be useful to GS. Particularly, it seems the only person that this works for is David with 10.6.8 - would be interesting to see if it works for any other OS.

Thanks,
Karl

[Richard Morrison]

GSUS has acknowledged the bug, and told me that they were trying to get a fix in for the next hotfix. When I reported it, it was the first they had heard of it, but apparently someone in Germany had reported it, too, so they were already working on it. It surprises me that this hadn't come up before. I guess most firms aren't using patches.

[Karl Ottenstein]

Thanks, Richard. I was too busy yesterday to repost what I heard back from GS: same news, that the fix would be in the next hotfix.

[Stress Co_]

Here's a workaround until the hotfix.

Don't modify the patch with "open object"
Instead, modify the patch with: Edit> Reshape> Explode into current view.
Once exploded... modify the lines fills, etc.

Then select all the parts and: Save selection as> object.
You can give it the same name and overwrite the original patch file.

EDIT:

Karl wrote:
Seems like this is OS-dependent, then. I'll report it. If anyone else would like to test
and post their OS and results, that might be useful to GS. Particularly, it seems the
only person that this works for is David with 10.6.8 - would be interesting to see if it works for any other OS.

Doesn't work for me using 10.8.4... But does in 10.6.8 (AC17)