Cannot Save Any File in Illustrator 2022

[Han.na]

Hello community!

I know that this issue seems to have been posted a number of times, but I'm wondering if I am somehow doing something different. 

I am running Adobe Illustrator on Monterey 12.2. It has been working fine until a couple of days ago when I was getting a message box saying that it cannot save my .ai files. I am occassionally able to save it as a PDF, but if I try to then save that as an AI I get the same error message. 

For a bit I was able to workaround this by not saving my files to a specific folder I created (for instance if that file originated in the download folder, I would save an edited version in the same download folder and that would work?) However, now it's not letting me save at all. It's not a matter of saving copies because I can't even save a file that was fine, say, a week ago.

I've tried a couple of the work arounds here, but no dice. I really need this program to work as I have clients who are on super tight deadlines and in diffefent time zones. A day trying to fix this issue can lead to weeks in delay. 

Any help would be appreciated!

[Met1]

Try making a new profile on your Mac.

[Ton Frederiks · Accepted solution]

Did you try to turn OFF Preferences > File Handling > Save in Background?

[Han.na]

Just tried that, and it seems like it works. Does this setting reset every time I relaunch the program? 

[Ton Frederiks]

It should stick. Good to hear that worked. Adobe engineering is aware of the problem and working on it.

[Han.na]

Sounds great. Thank you for the help!

[Sarah24027337v0u8]

Running 12.3 Monterey - tried the suggestion above - still not working. M1 laptop. From the threads it looks like this has been happening since late last year - Adobe what's going on? 

[Monika Gause]

Update your system to 12.3.1 and Illustrator to 26.2.1 and it should be solved.