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Save recovery file error

  • December 11, 2025
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sle
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Hi, im quite new in FME so im not sure if I can explain what im trying to do :) but I get an error message in FME workbench. Does anyone know what I can do to fix this? I have checked all the suggestions..

Insida_basfil_Recorder (RecorderFactory): Failed to open FME feature store file `C:\Users\ics088\AppData\Local\Temp\wb-inspectors-iFMRGD\inspector.ffs' for write -- ensure that the folder exists, the file is not in use (even by another transformer), and that you have sufficient privileges to write to it.
Saving feature type index into file 'C:\Users\ics088\AppData\Local\Temp\wb-inspectors-iFMRGD\inspector.fsi'
Finished saving feature type index into file 'C:\Users\ics088\AppData\Local\Temp\wb-inspectors-iFMRGD\inspector.fsi'
Translation FAILED with 1 error(s) and 2596 warning(s) (857 feature(s) output)
ERROR : Failed to open FME feature store file `C:\Users\ics088\AppData\Local\Temp\wb-inspectors-iFMRGD\inspector.ffs' for write -- ensure that the folder exists, the file is not in use (even by another transformer), and that you have sufficient privileges to write to it.
Program Terminating
Translation FAILED.
 

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redgeographics
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You’re trying to inspect data, am I correct? How much free space does the drive with your TEMP folder have? Are you seeing this with every workspace or just with this specific one?


sle
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  • December 11, 2025

No I dont think so. Im trying to convert files and change objects in them. It has 60 GB left. 
Its just with this one.

 


redgeographics
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Okay, that doesn’t sound like it would be a problem.

One of the lines of log you’ve posted refers to “2596 warning(s)”, I’m curious as to what those are.


sle
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  • December 11, 2025

Ok thanks.

If I have closed FME I cant see the warnings right?


redgeographics
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They may have been written to the log file, you can find that in the same folder as your workspace, it has the same name as your workspace, but the .log extension.

If it’s not there you can always try and run the workspace again and then copy the translation log from the panel


sle
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  • December 11, 2025

I have checked the log file but cant find anything that says warning.

But its so big so it takes sooo much time... ;-)


redgeographics
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Can you attach it here?


sle
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  • December 11, 2025

Here it is


redgeographics
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Okay, so it does look like it’s trying to read a lot more data (2.5 million of features) than I expected. I think the warnings are related to this:

GeometryCoercer: Cannot coerce from IFMEPoint to fme_line

... Last line repeated 228 times …

Which is maybe something you want to look into, but I don’t think it’s critical.

I’m also seeing several messages that say

ResourceManager: Optimizing Memory Usage.  Please wait…

And that is bad news. This means FME is running out of RAM and needs to start swapping to temporary files on disk, which is slower.

Try running this workspace with Feature Caching turned off. I think that will make a very big difference in your memory usage and processing time and it may just avoid your original error alltogether. The downside is that you won’t be able to inspect the intermediate results.


sle
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  • December 11, 2025

Thank you! I’l try!


sle
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  • December 11, 2025

Thank you!!! It worked! You just saved my day!