# Versioning issue for savesol/readsol use?

**URL:** https://community.freefem.org/t/versioning-issue-for-savesol-readsol-use/2306
**Category:** Feature Request
**Created:** [March 2, 2023, 11:21pm UTC](https://community.freefem.org/t/versioning-issue-for-savesol-readsol-use/2306 "2023-03-02T23:21:55Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author: ![plouraboue](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/community.freefem.org/plouraboue/32/1584_2.png) [@plouraboue](https://community.freefem.org/u/plouraboue)
#### Post date: [March 2, 2023, 11:21pm UTC](https://community.freefem.org/t/versioning-issue-for-savesol-readsol-use/2306/1 "2023-03-02T23:21:55Z")

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Hi all,  
I am new in this forum, so please excuse this question if naive. I am running FreeFem++ v4.7 in MacOs, and trying to use the savesol/readsol commands. In the documentation it seems to come with v4.6 but it is not recognized by my version.

I am doing something wrong ? Should I use a specific plugin ?

Many thanks for any help.

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### Author: ![jsmacd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/df788c/32.png) [@jsmacd](https://community.freefem.org/u/jsmacd)
#### Post date: [March 3, 2023, 11:23pm UTC](https://community.freefem.org/t/versioning-issue-for-savesol-readsol-use/2306/2 "2023-03-03T23:23:04Z")

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I’m not sure what version of FreeFEM I’m running but I believe you need to load medit to read and save solutions. So something like:

```auto
load "medit"

mesh Th = square(10);
// ... solve for u ...
savesol("mySol.sol", Th, u, order = 1);

fespace Vh(Th, P1); 
Vh uread;
uread[] = readsol("mySol.sol");

```

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### Author: ![plouraboue](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/community.freefem.org/plouraboue/32/1584_2.png) [@plouraboue](https://community.freefem.org/u/plouraboue)
#### Post date: [March 4, 2023, 11:23pm UTC](https://community.freefem.org/t/versioning-issue-for-savesol-readsol-use/2306/3 "2023-03-04T23:23:15Z")

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> [@jsmacd](#):
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> `load "medit"`

Yes, medit was the plugin I needed ! Many thanks ! Sincerely, Franck
