# X.thunkable.com not saving blocks **URL:** \ **Category:** Questions about Thunkable X\ **Created:** [November 8, 2018, 8:32pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/x-thunkable-com-not-saving-blocks/55641 "2018-11-08T20:32:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![mrbartucz](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/community.thunkable.com/mrbartucz/32/27447_2.png) [@mrbartucz](https://community.thunkable.com/u/mrbartucz)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2018, 8:32pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/x-thunkable-com-not-saving-blocks/55641/1 "2018-11-08T20:32:48Z")
In my account and many of my students, the blocks are not saved when we change them, no matter how long we wait. The apps are very small so it’s not a size issue. We have also tried moving “event” blocks as sugested. [https://x.thunkable.com/copy/b7237ea32addc97259daf9950d383e20](https://x.thunkable.com/copy/b7237ea32addc97259daf9950d383e20) ---
**Author:** ![domhnallohanlon](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/community.thunkable.com/domhnallohanlon/32/29554_2.png) [@domhnallohanlon](https://community.thunkable.com/u/domhnallohanlon)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2018, 8:57pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/x-thunkable-com-not-saving-blocks/55641/2 "2018-11-08T20:57:59Z")
Hi @mrbartucz welcome to the Thunkable Community! Sorry to hear you were experiencing an issue with this and thanks for sharing you sample project with us. I’ve cloned a copy of the and I’m unable to reproduce your error. I’ve tried switching between screens, switching between blocks/designer and refreshing the project but the blocks are persistent for me. Is everyone using separate email addresses? Are there any issues with Wi-Fi/school network? ---
**Author:** ![mrbartucz](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/community.thunkable.com/mrbartucz/32/27447_2.png) [@mrbartucz](https://community.thunkable.com/u/mrbartucz)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2018, 9:15pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/x-thunkable-com-not-saving-blocks/55641/3 "2018-11-08T21:15:00Z")
Thanks for the quick response! We are all on wired connections. About 1/3 of the students were having this issue and the rest weren’t. I also had this issue at home last night, so I don’t think it’s a network problem. Literally, in that project if I drag the random block into the initialize block. Then click on the Design Tab and back to the Blocks tab, it does not remember that those blocks were together. Searching the history of the community, it looks like this is a recurring problem. Is there no known solution? Thanks, John ---
**Author:** ![domhnallohanlon](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/community.thunkable.com/domhnallohanlon/32/29554_2.png) [@domhnallohanlon](https://community.thunkable.com/u/domhnallohanlon)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2018, 10:06pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/x-thunkable-com-not-saving-blocks/55641/4 "2018-11-08T22:06:46Z")
No problem John. Ok, are your students all using the same browser? Do you have the same set up at home and at work? (Just trying to eliminate as many variables as possible) ---
**Author:** ![domhnallohanlon](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/community.thunkable.com/domhnallohanlon/32/29554_2.png) [@domhnallohanlon](https://community.thunkable.com/u/domhnallohanlon)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2018, 10:55pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/x-thunkable-com-not-saving-blocks/55641/5 "2018-11-08T22:55:14Z")
> [@mrbartucz](#): > > We have also tried moving “event” blocks as sugested. Actually one more thing, when you say “as suggested” is there a specific piece of documentation or tutorial that you are referring to? ---
**Author:** ![mrbartucz](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/community.thunkable.com/mrbartucz/32/27447_2.png) [@mrbartucz](https://community.thunkable.com/u/mrbartucz)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2018, 1:12am UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/x-thunkable-com-not-saving-blocks/55641/6 "2018-11-09T01:12:12Z")
All my students are using Chrome. I use Chrome on a Mac as opposed to all PCs in the classroom. One of the suggested things to try by a mod in a previous thread suggested moving an event block because that was supposed to force a save. Just out of curiosity, why is there not a save button or a “force save right now” button? It would make debugging problems like this a lot easier… ---
**Author:** ![mrbartucz](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/community.thunkable.com/mrbartucz/32/27447_2.png) [@mrbartucz](https://community.thunkable.com/u/mrbartucz)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2018, 1:39am UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/x-thunkable-com-not-saving-blocks/55641/7 "2018-11-13T01:39:30Z")
I had about 5 of my students email the help address today with links to their projects. Hopefully that will help debug. I would _really_ like to help you fix this, so please let me know how I can be of assistance. I’m happy to edit my app at a specific time while someone is watching logs, etc. I would much rather not have all my classes go back to AppInventor next semester because so many kids have iPhones. Thanks, John ---
**Author:** ![paulmw](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/22d042/32.png) [@paulmw](https://community.thunkable.com/u/paulmw)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2018, 5:28am UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/x-thunkable-com-not-saving-blocks/55641/8 "2018-11-13T05:28:43Z")
Hi John, Hmm…it seems like you found a bug. For now, don’t put the random block inside the variable initialization block. I’m guessing that’s what’s causing your problem. Any changes after putting the random block in the variable initialization block won’t be saved. I’ll look into a fix. ---
**Author:** ![mrbartucz](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/community.thunkable.com/mrbartucz/32/27447_2.png) [@mrbartucz](https://community.thunkable.com/u/mrbartucz)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2018, 3:11pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/x-thunkable-com-not-saving-blocks/55641/9 "2018-11-13T15:11:19Z")
That’s great to hear! I’ll come up with something different for the students to do in the meantime. J ---
**Author:** ![Noelia\_Nunez](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/51bf81/32.png) [@Noelia\_Nunez](https://community.thunkable.com/u/Noelia_Nunez)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2019, 11:35pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/x-thunkable-com-not-saving-blocks/55641/10 "2019-04-13T23:35:37Z")
Hi, we are experiencing the same issue. We assigned some values to the variables and when we change screens they are not saved. We already tried moving the blocks around, recreating the block, waiting some time and nothing works, having only one session active. Any help is really appreciate it. I’m using Chrome in Mac and student Edge. This is the project URL (its private): [https://x.thunkable.com/projects/5c8d7a94d88796169d600dd1/openProject/designer](https://x.thunkable.com/projects/5c8d7a94d88796169d600dd1/openProject/designer) The issue is in [https://x.thunkable.com/projects/5c8d7a94d88796169d600dd1/detalle\_pictograma/blocks](https://x.thunkable.com/projects/5c8d7a94d88796169d600dd1/detalle_pictograma/blocks) The second assign value to a variable should be app name instead of app image, we are experiencing same issue in this one: [https://x.thunkable.com/projects/5c8d7a94d88796169d600dd1/pictogramas/blocks](https://x.thunkable.com/projects/5c8d7a94d88796169d600dd1/pictogramas/blocks) Thanks ---
**Author:** ![mrbartucz](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/community.thunkable.com/mrbartucz/32/27447_2.png) [@mrbartucz](https://community.thunkable.com/u/mrbartucz)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2019, 11:56pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/x-thunkable-com-not-saving-blocks/55641/11 "2019-04-13T23:56:25Z")
We are still having the same issue as well. Out of about 60 students per semester, 5 or 6 completely lose their work every time. I’ve asked them all to email thunkable support with their project URLs. I don’t know how many have. ---
**Author:** ![Noelia\_Nunez](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/51bf81/32.png) [@Noelia\_Nunez](https://community.thunkable.com/u/Noelia_Nunez)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2019, 5:25am UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/x-thunkable-com-not-saving-blocks/55641/12 "2019-04-14T05:25:11Z")
Thank you for letting me know. So that means you haven’t find a solution so far? ☹ ---
**Author:** ![mrbartucz](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/community.thunkable.com/mrbartucz/32/27447_2.png) [@mrbartucz](https://community.thunkable.com/u/mrbartucz)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2019, 9:54pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/x-thunkable-com-not-saving-blocks/55641/13 "2019-04-14T21:54:06Z")
no we haven’t. I keep hoping that Thunkable will fix the problem, but they need to know how many users are having the problem to make it a priority and which projects they are so they can look at them. ---
**Author:** ![Noelia\_Nunez](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/51bf81/32.png) [@Noelia\_Nunez](https://community.thunkable.com/u/Noelia_Nunez)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2019, 7:25pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/x-thunkable-com-not-saving-blocks/55641/14 "2019-04-29T19:25:12Z")
I found a way to fix it, we used objects instead of variables. Hope that helps your students. =) ---
**Author:** ![cristianpop.091207](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/58956e/32.png) [@cristianpop.091207](https://community.thunkable.com/u/cristianpop.091207)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2020, 12:13pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/x-thunkable-com-not-saving-blocks/55641/15 "2020-01-27T12:13:05Z")
I also have this problem. Please help me ! ☹ 😟 ---
**Author:** ![ganiket0987vzsw](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/94ad74/32.png) [@ganiket0987vzsw](https://community.thunkable.com/u/ganiket0987vzsw)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2020, 3:11pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/x-thunkable-com-not-saving-blocks/55641/16 "2020-03-04T15:11:08Z")
just see this pic by clicking this URL you will get one image and you will see my problem what I am facing so help me > **[Screenshot](https://prnt.sc/rbim8f)** > > Captured with Lightshot ---
**Author:** ![domhnallohanlon](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/community.thunkable.com/domhnallohanlon/32/29554_2.png) [@domhnallohanlon](https://community.thunkable.com/u/domhnallohanlon)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2020, 3:21pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/x-thunkable-com-not-saving-blocks/55641/17 "2020-03-04T15:21:07Z")
@ganiket0987vzsw - this warning is to make sure you _don’t_ loose any of your work. If you wait for 2 or 3 seconds your work will be saved and you won’t see the message when you move between screens/activities. Hope that helps! ---
**Author:** ![stanislavirintod5](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/919ad9/32.png) [@stanislavirintod5](https://community.thunkable.com/u/stanislavirintod5)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2020, 1:00pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/x-thunkable-com-not-saving-blocks/55641/18 "2020-06-14T13:00:01Z")
changes not saving at all( ---
**Author:** ![stanislavirintod5](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/919ad9/32.png) [@stanislavirintod5](https://community.thunkable.com/u/stanislavirintod5)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2020, 1:07pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/x-thunkable-com-not-saving-blocks/55641/19 "2020-06-14T13:07:39Z")
Found the reason - if i put \* - - this simbols - IDE dont save anything (symbols in hex : 0x01 ;0x02 ; 0x03 ---
**Author:** ![ioannis](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/community.thunkable.com/ioannis/32/146956_2.png) [@ioannis](https://community.thunkable.com/u/ioannis)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2024, 11:25am UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/x-thunkable-com-not-saving-blocks/55641/20 "2024-11-08T11:25:44Z")