
These files have nothing to do with AutoCAD’s saving issue. Note: While looking in the directory where your drawing is located, you might see files with the file extension. DWG and maybe start working locally until you can solve the problem. In the meantime, do not fear, your work is not lost.


When you save a named drawing in AutoCAD, it actually does this ( *steps 2 and 3 only occur if you have. In order to understand why this error happens, you need to understand how AutoCAD saves a drawing. “Unable to save to drawing K:\mypath\mydrawing.dwg You press Ctrl+S or click the save icon and you get a message that says something like this: The only thing that I am aware of that could possibly affect it would the fact that this problem coincided with changing the administrator password on the server, which was done for security reasons.It is not uncommon to see this problem around the AutoCAD world.

No other program is having an issue, and they are all successfully saving to the drive.Īuto-cad has been saving to the network drive fine before. What we did try do was remove the permissions and add them again, but it made no difference. The user has full read/write permissions for that particular shared folder (hosted by Server 2003, mapped on his PC).

The operation was not completed and no file was created.' I have noticed a number of temporary files in the folder since this issue has started, and they all have a size of 0 Kb. When the user tries to save the drawing, he is getting the following error message 'One or more objects in the drawing cannot be saved to the specified format. We are having an issue with saving drawings from Auto-cad 2013 LT to a mapped network drive (using Windows 7 Professional).
