Question by mshalojones · Jan 23, 2014 at 11:06 AM · save scene open project game save state saving

Unity keeps crashing when I try to save a scene

This is driving me nuts. I can start a project and even save the scene when there's nothing in it. I can import standard assets but as soon as I add GameObjects and change any of the transforms and add a RigidBody, Unity totally crashes when I go to Save Scene As...

I've stopped bothering trying to just Save Scene as when I close Unity I get the same problem as after a crash - I re-open the project and it has only saved the Project not the Scene.

Please help - this is driving me crazy! I'm working on a Mac.

Thanks

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FrankHHansen · Jan 23, 2014 at 11:20 AM 0

Do you have the project on a cloud service like DropbBox etc..?

mshalojones · Jan 23, 2014 at 05:12 PM 0

Thank you for answering!

I haven't set anything up specifically but I think you might have hit the nail on the head! I was working with a games company oversees on a Unity project and when I tried to save their scene code it crashed Unity. They fixed it so that I could save scenes when VPN-ed to their system. I can't see anything to revert this though or how they did it!

I trawled through some other scene saving Q&As here (and how to uninstall / reinstall unity ones) and saw that there was a preference file (library/preferences/com.unity3d...) but couldn't find this file on my system. Red herring?

Can you suggest where to look to reset where the game is saving to?

Thank you so much!

frankyboy450 mshalojones · Jan 23, 2014 at 08:47 PM 0

Ins$$anonymous$$d of writing an answer, press the "Add new comment" next to the comment on your post. ;) The engine should save the files of the project inside the project folder. but you might have to make a copy of the project for it to reset(if it somehow changed...)

mshalojones · Jan 24, 2014 at 11:06 AM 0

Hi FrankyBoy

Thanks again for your answer. I'm new here and still learning.

Yeah I created a multiple new projects. Uninstalled and reinstalled Unity and I still get the same problem: when I put in GameObjects, change them (name, transform numbers, etc) then press Save Scene As, it crashes Unity. I have, on odd occasion, got to the point where it's saved a single GameObject but then I try with another object and it crashes again. This is so frustrating.

betaFlux · Jan 24, 2014 at 02:55 PM 0

Hey, I remember I have had the same issue 1 year ago or so. I didn't know what to do to solve it, even after reinstallation the problem remained.

What I did to solve it somehow, was to uninstall Unity and at this point I made sure to delete every single piece of junk left over in the install path and in the registry. I think I used ccleaner but who doesn't. Then I created a new project and the problem didn't come up. If I remember correctly, I didn't even try to run my own project because I was afraid it could recreate the issue, so I copied the most important things from my old project folder to a new folder with another name and everything ran fine from then on.

Good luck!

frankyboy450 · Jan 24, 2014 at 04:00 PM 0

Try opening the project where the problem is in, select all the assets in the Project view>right click it and select export package>export it to your desktop or other place>make a new empty project>drag the unity package file into the project window and double click it and import all the assets.

This might not work but it's worth the try.

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