saving render bug

Ruphuss

nasty bug
if you try to save your render in studio with a "?" in it
it says "cannot save" and the render is gone
no warning-nothing
pls fix that

Lissa_xyz

I don't get an error, but you're right it doesn't save. All is not lost, though. In Daz Studio, go to Window > Panes and enable the Render Album. Now you can right click on the image and choose save as and you can resave the image with a proper file name.

Richard Haseltine

?, like *, is a wildcard character and is not permitted in file names. There are several forbidden characters, it's an operating system thing.

Lissa_xyz

To expand on that, here's a list of all of the forbidden chars:

< (less than)
> (greater than)
: (colon)
" (double quote)
/ (forward slash)
\ (backslash)
| (vertical bar or pipe)
? (question mark)
* (asterisk)

Herald of Fire

There is also a "Save last render" option under the File menu which can recover any renders you might have previously not saved. Be warned however, that closing down Daz Studio deletes the temporary files which includes your previous render history.

Ruphuss

there should be a warning or something

Totte

ruphuss said:

there should be a warning or something

It depends on how the particular OS APIs handles illegal characters in filenames. Some will tell the caller "Sorry Dude, I can't do that", other happily says "Yes fine" then fails but forget to tell the called "I failed."

Taoz

Vaskania said:

I don't get an error, but you're right it doesn't save.

Same here (4.6.1.17). The Save Dialog doesn't close though, that should tell you that something's wrong.