SAS ER encounters an error while saving a project file to a shared drive

[AG42451]

I have recently encountered an error that is stopping me from saving my SAS EG project file to my company's shared drive. When I try to save, I get the error message "An unexpected error occurred while saving the project. Please review the application log for more details".

When I open the application log, the error message says "ERROR SAS.EG.ProjectElements.ElementManager [(null)] - Error saving project

System.IO.IOException: The process cannot access the file 'my project file path on the shared drive' because it is being used by another process."

I do not get the error if I try to save directly to my computer's C drive. In fact, I can save to my C drive, move the file from my C drive to the shared drive, open it from the shared drive and run some data, and still get an error when trying to re-save to the shared drive.

For extra context, I am using SAS EG version "8.4 Update 2 (8.4.2.22) (32-bit)".

[Kurt_Bremser]

I always had my project files on local drives, and would copy them to a share only for having them available on multiple computers. All actual work should be done with local files.

There were even incidents in our company where a network hickup would cause the destruction of a project.

This seems to be a long-time shortcoming in the .NET-based file handling routines of EG.