# Not Saving my Scene's Issue
**URL:** https://forum.highend3d.com/t/not-saving-my-scenes-issue/44014
**Category:** Maya
**Tags:** new-user
**Created:** [August 4, 2004, 8:58am UTC](https://forum.highend3d.com/t/not-saving-my-scenes-issue/44014 "2004-08-04T08:58:31Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@alex\_alv](https://forum.highend3d.com/u/alex_alv)
#### Post date: [August 4, 2004, 8:58am UTC](https://forum.highend3d.com/t/not-saving-my-scenes-issue/44014/1 "2004-08-04T08:58:31Z")
Ok this has been happening quite often and it's really making me angry. I did some more 3d text logo stuff for a friend. I had to import the text from an .eps since Maya didn't want to do it by itself. I used the bevel plus tool to make some cool looking geometry out of the imported curves (eps file). Now I don't need the curves anymore so I erase them then delete by type.......history, then save the scene where I would like, then continue on applying some cool shaders to it.....saving here and there down the road. Now I'm done and did my render and all looks good, I save one more time then quit maya. Now.... next time I open that same scene it is blank..... nothing there...... geometry is all gone, no record of anything saved that i was working on....... all is lost............ Y? Where did it go, why didn't it save when I told it to save?
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### Author:  [@joojaa](https://forum.highend3d.com/u/joojaa)
#### Post date: [August 4, 2004, 9:08am UTC](https://forum.highend3d.com/t/not-saving-my-scenes-issue/44014/2 "2004-08-04T09:08:01Z")
Your the second person to report of such a thing! Ive never actualy ever experienced this or seen anyone produce this BUG if you can call it such. A sthere are a bit too many variables for this not to happen.
Can you reporduce the effect, if not then it might be a personal blunder? Im not saying it is tough.
Firstof, if i were you id allways use the mayas incremantal save feature as it will make your life easier in the future.
I cant debug this for you because i cant reproduce the effect... MY maya saves every freaking time i save (the file ive been working on for the last 24 hours has beed saved to diske a whopping 125 times allready, without a single failure, also it saves whenever i dont save too)
There might be a some problem with your OS, file, maya or disk too wich isnt to say that this is not annoying?
Check that your file isnt marked as a read only file. (would happen if you copied a file form a cd to your disk, or allso may couldt directly write to a cd even f you wanted it to)
chek taht maya says its actualy saved soemthing in the script editor.
something like
// Result: Drive:/pathmumbojumbo/projects/default/scenes/test.mb //
It should report failure, only a newbie woulnt keep an eye up for warnings like that offcourse so youd miss it!
More info please!
PS. actuay delete by type hsitory wont erase the curves!
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### Author:  [@alex\_alv](https://forum.highend3d.com/u/alex_alv)
#### Post date: [August 4, 2004, 5:33pm UTC](https://forum.highend3d.com/t/not-saving-my-scenes-issue/44014/3 "2004-08-04T17:33:30Z")
thanks for your reply, I was told deleting history would help this issue out, plus I have followed many tutorials that suggest that deleting history after object is the way you want it will help the computer performance. I also posted this message on another forum to get added help......... go here, for there are some people that also had my problem and talk about the deleting history............ [http://www.digital-tutors.com/forums/showt...29734#post29734](http://www.digital-tutors.com/forums/showt...29734#post29734)
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### Author:  [@joojaa](https://forum.highend3d.com/u/joojaa)
#### Post date: [August 5, 2004, 12:57am UTC](https://forum.highend3d.com/t/not-saving-my-scenes-issue/44014/4 "2004-08-05T00:57:23Z")
Deleting history has nothing to do with saving not working!
Its about deleting history!