I wanted to save a puzzle I made in The Incredible Machine 3. I clicked Save, typed the name of my game and clicked save. the save screen disappears as I'm sure it should but the name of the machine does not change. I click Load and the machine is not listed. My laptop is running Windows 7. The game's directory is C:/Program Files/GOG.com/The Incredible Machine Series/<Then all games are listed>. The game will save and load in-game puzzles just fine but will not save/load custom puzzles.

If you've installed TIM into the Program Files folder on Win 7, you'll likely need to run it as an administrator for them to save.

I tried that but it's still not allowing me to save. It's doing the same thing as before.

Maybe you can try this : I checked Run this program in 256 colors, and oddly enough, it worked. When I clicked on Advanced, it could save custom machines.

Hope this could help.

I'm having the same problem. I've tried installing to C:\ rather than \Program Files, tried running as admin, tried disabling my antivirus. Nothing helps. It looks like it saves a puzzle but when I go to open, it says there are no puzzles and that I need to change directory but there's no obvious way to change directory. The "Advanced" button doesn't seem to do anything.

Does anyone know how to get save/load of custom TIM3 puzzles working? I want to make some really easy puzzles for my 4 year old boy.

Thanks

PS. Win7 32bit

I'm having the same problem (just lost my first custom puzzle). If it's just TIM3 then I'll just make puzzles in another TIM game that came in the pack, but if this problem is spread across all the games, then it really needs to be addressed. However, I will try the solutions mentioned here. Maybe running in 256 colours will fix it.

I'm running Windows 7 64bit.

EDIT: I think I managed to fix it. When trying to save a puzzle, I clicked on "advanced" and an explorer window popped up asking me to choose a save directory. Then when I chose a custom folder to save my custom puzzles, it worked. I could both save and load puzzles. Maybe the problem is TIM3 doesn't yet have a default directory to save/load custom puzzles from, and you have to tell it. Unfortunately the "save" option is always greyed out and I have to keep choosing "save as".

I'm having this exact same problem running the game in Wine. I thought that maybe it was just Wine, until I saw this thread. I'll try Digifish's solution and see if that works.