Hi NG; I know this is a problem for most of us from time to time. When trying to save a file, qsave or saveas, one get the following error. <Drawing> has a command in progress. Hit enter to cancel or [Retry]: Often one had to close the without saving but this is a solution to save and close the file. It works to save the file with a VBA-routine. So this little code will do the trick. I dont know if it will work with Lispcode or any other programming language. Public Sub SaveFile() ThisDrawing.Save ThisDrawing.Close End Sub