@robvdv, **Please change the Category of this topic to Bug Report.** What seems to be wrong is that if the public project has not been opened and then saved in V6.3 39 or later, it cannot be saved by anyone else. I have already commented on this behaviour but had not thought it through and realised that it will apply to all earlier public projects and so had not raised a Bug Report about it. Please see this topic for a bit more: [https://easyeda.com/forum/topic/Online-simulation-examples-cannot-be-opened-04e9379197c64560ba069a4c8c867eae](https://easyeda.com/forum/topic/Online-simulation-examples-cannot-be-opened-04e9379197c64560ba069a4c8c867eae)

Please clone public project, doesn't support to save as public project file anymore. cc to @andyfierman

@UserSupport, Sorry but I think you misunderstand the problem. Let me try to explain by demonstrating the issue. The link below is to a public project of simulation schematics that I created in my "example" login 4 years ago, long before V6.3.39: [https://easyeda\.com/example/Use\_and\_abuse\_of\_voltage\_sources\_in\_ngspice\_01\-db5nhzR93](https://easyeda.com/example/Use_and_abuse_of_voltage_sources_in_ngspice_01-db5nhzR93) **_Note that I am currently not logged in as "example", I am logged in as "andyfierman"._** I click on the link which opens the Project page where I can read about the project and look at pictures of the schematics but there is no **Clone** button so the **_only_** other option is to **Open In Editor**:  So I click **Open in Editor** on any schematic (or to open the whole Project) and I then get this message:  asking me to save the document after it has opened. The schematic then opens in Std mode. I can see that it has not been saved because it has an asterisk on the tab. But it is not possible to save it because the **Save** option is greyed out and **CTRL+S** does nothing:  **But because the project has not been saved by me, it does not appear in my Projects list so I cannot select and then clone it. ** **** Also, because this is a Simulation Schematic, I need swap into Sim mode so I click on **Sim**:  and then I get this message:  So I click **Confirm** and I get this message:  I cannot save it because the Save option is greyed out. If I click **Don't Save** then the project closes. **So there is no way that I can save the project so it is impossible to clone it!** The **only** way that anyone other than the user "example" can save this project is if I log out as "andyfierman" and then log in as "example", open it and then save it. Then if I log out as "example" and log back in as "andyfierma"n, I can open the Project and then just Save it in the normal way. In fact I then do not need to Clone it! **This is an example that I can use to demonstrate this issue because I have two different logins and I have Projects that I created years ago _but the same issue applies to anyone who wants to copy a Public Project made by someone else in a version before V6.3.39 and who has not saved that Public Project after updating to V6.3.39._**

@ andyfierman You explained exactly what the problem is. Thx!! @ usersupport I hope you can fix the issue quickly because due to the currently problem most of the “older” public projects cannot be re-used by other users. Thx, Rob

@robvdv @andyfierman Please clone it, or star it at present. we will remove this limitation at next release. 

Oh! Sorry, I'd completely  missed that clone or fork button... Thanks.   :)

@UserSupport No, sorry but the clone or fork button does not work. Tried it on my example project above and I get the 404 screen as reported in this Bug Report: [https://easyeda.com/forum/topic/Fork-button-leads-to-error-404-716ef72346184283b3d8baa69ca96ee7](https://easyeda.com/forum/topic/Fork-button-leads-to-error-404-716ef72346184283b3d8baa69ca96ee7)

Same thing here. I was trying to copy some parts of project schemes without success with older projects. New ones works fine..

@UserSupport Just seeing that image saved me a ton of work. I've been trying to build a design for a audio equalizer and I had found this beautifully designed schematic and pcb and wanted to slightly modify it to my needs and taste but as I quickly found I wasnt able to copy it or save it in my account. After seeing the image you posted I managed to clone it, now I can work on modifying it a bit, the design has rotating potentiometers and I want sliding potentiometers. BTW, the one I'm on about is here [https://easyeda.com/FalguniBurul/10-band-graphic-eq](https://easyeda.com/FalguniBurul/10-band-graphic-eq)