Matlab R2022b won't save .fig

Hi everyone,

I'm currently experiencing an issue where Matlab won't let me save a figure as .fig. I've tried saveas, savefig or manually saving the figure. It doens't even give me an error message it just doesn't create a file.

Does anyone know why this happens or how to fix it?

[Star Strider]

It might help if you post the code you use to create and save the figure.

[Dominik Rohrbach]

figure;
plot(1:10, rand(1, 10))

savefig('myFigure.fig');

Just something as basic as this doesn't seem to be working. Even if i open the figure in the figure Window and try to "save as" or export nothing happens. Not even an error message.

however, it works just fine if I try to save as png, jpg or any other format

[Star Strider]

I believe .fig files are saved as .mat files. Can you save .mat files?

[Joe Vinciguerra]

Is it possible that your operating system is hiding .fig files?

Answer 1

[Steven Lord]

Let's make sure you haven't created your own savefig.m that is taking precedence over the savefig function that is part of MATLAB. What does this command show?

which -all savefig

/MATLAB/toolbox/matlab/graphics/objectsystem/savefig.m

If you see your own function ahead of the one in toolbox/matlab/graphics/objectsystem, rename your function.

[Dominik Rohrbach]

Thank you that solved it!

I had a toolbox installed which seems to have overwritten the savefig function