I have an Evaluation license and am unable to save any diagrams or projects. I get the message "This project has been locked or not writable".

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks!

Hi Lanie,

Thank you for trying out astah*.

This message appears when the project is opened by someone else or yourself on another astah*. So when you try to save a file, please make sure that the project you are trying to save is not opened by anyone else or on another astah* at the same time.

To avoid this in the future, you can change the system property setting.
Go to [Tool] - [System Properties] and select [File] on the left list. Check off [Set a lock when opening a project file] option and click [Apply] - [OK].









Hope this helps.

Cheers,
Satomi

I just downloaded the community version 6.3 and have the same problem. I tried your fix but the contents of the file folder does not have that option.

rwjr-44

Hi, thank you for downloading astah* community 6.3.

This option is available only in astah* professional and astah* UML editions.

Does astah* give you any alert dialog when you fail saving a file? If so, what does it say?
Also let us know the environment that you run astah* on such as OS, Java version etc.
Your log file can be found in USER_HOME\.astah\community\astah_com.log

Thanks.
Satomi

IPlease find the lob for Windows Vista (32 bit) here. I will post the Windows 7 (64 bit) log tonight. I want to use this for my CS I class and am just doing a trial run first. It seems to simple yet powerful enough to carry the class through the semester. I do have JRE 1.6 on both computers.

Thank you.

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astah_com.log
date: 04 February 2011 08:25:42 EST
ver: community 6.3
java ver: 1.6.0_23
java vendor: Sun Microsystems Inc.
os name: Windows Vista
os ver: 6.0
java class path: C:\Program Files\astah-community\\astah-community.jar
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System Properties
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-- listing properties --
java.runtime.name=Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment
sun.boot.library.path=C:\Program Files\Java\jre6\bin
java.vm.version=19.0-b09
java.vm.vendor=Sun Microsystems Inc.
java.vendor.url=http://java.sun.com/
path.separator=;
java.vm.name=Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM
file.encoding.pkg=sun.io
user.country=US
sun.java.launcher=SUN_STANDARD
sun.os.patch.level=Service Pack 2
java.vm.specification.name=Java Virtual Machine Specification
user.dir=C:\Program Files\astah-community
java.runtime.version=1.6.0_23-b05
java.awt.graphicsenv=sun.awt.Win32GraphicsEnvironment
java.endorsed.dirs=C:\Program Files\Java\jre6\lib\endorsed
os.arch=x86
java.io.tmpdir=C:\Users\ROBERT~1\AppData\Local\Temp\
line.separator=

java.vm.specification.vendor=Sun Microsystems Inc.
user.variant=
os.name=Windows Vista
sun.jnu.encoding=Cp1252
java.library.path=C:\Windows\system32;.;C:\Windows\Sun\...
java.specification.name=Java Platform API Specification
java.class.version=50.0
sun.management.compiler=HotSpot Client Compiler
os.version=6.0
user.home=C:\Users\Robert Willis
user.timezone=America/New_York
java.awt.printerjob=sun.awt.windows.WPrinterJob
file.encoding=Cp1252
java.specification.version=1.6
user.name=Robert Willis
java.class.path=C:\Program Files\astah-community\\ast...
java.vm.specification.version=1.0
sun.arch.data.model=32
java.home=C:\Program Files\Java\jre6
java.specification.vendor=Sun Microsystems Inc.
user.language=en
awt.toolkit=sun.awt.windows.WToolkit
java.vm.info=mixed mode, sharing
java.version=1.6.0_23
java.ext.dirs=C:\Program Files\Java\jre6\lib\ext;C:...
sun.boot.class.path=C:\Program Files\Java\jre6\lib\resour...
java.vendor=Sun Microsystems Inc.
file.separator=\
java.vendor.url.bug=http://java.sun.com/cgi-bin/bugreport...
sun.cpu.endian=little
sun.io.unicode.encoding=UnicodeLittle
sun.desktop=windows
sun.cpu.isalist=pentium_pro+mmx pentium_pro pentium+m...

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LN = null
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Thank you for your prompt response.

Here are a couple of more questions we would like to ask.

Q1. So do you get "This project has been locked or not writable." message when you try to save a file?

Q2. If you get different message, what does it say?

Q3. Does this happen to a specific project file only? or every time you try to save other files as well?

Thanks.
Satomi

1. I received: "This project has been locked or not writable."
3. It happen for any file I tried to save.

Thanks

Thanks for clarifying the points.

Changing the folder to save a file may solve this issue. Because this alert appears if you do not have a security permission on the folder, where you want to save your file, to write or if it is read-only.

So please make sure that you have security permission on the folder, where to save a file, to write and then try again.

Hope this helps. If you are still unable to save a file, please let us know. Thanks.

Best regards,
Satomi

That was it. Thank you.

Glad to hear its been solved.