diff --git a/src/Microsoft.ML.Data/Model/ModelOperationsCatalog.cs b/src/Microsoft.ML.Data/Model/ModelOperationsCatalog.cs
index dc4cb551d0..cf99fb25ca 100644
--- a/src/Microsoft.ML.Data/Model/ModelOperationsCatalog.cs
+++ b/src/Microsoft.ML.Data/Model/ModelOperationsCatalog.cs
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ internal ModelOperationsCatalog(IHostEnvironment env)
         /// </summary>
         /// <param name="model">The trained model to be saved.</param>
         /// <param name="stream">A writeable, seekable stream to save to.</param>
-        public void Save<TSource>(IDataLoader<TSource> model, Stream stream)
+        public void SaveDataLoader<TSource>(IDataLoader<TSource> model, Stream stream)
         {
             _env.CheckValue(model, nameof(model));
             _env.CheckValue(stream, nameof(stream));
@@ -50,10 +50,10 @@ public void Save<TSource>(IDataLoader<TSource> model, Stream stream)
         /// </summary>
         /// <param name="model">The trained model to be saved.</param>
         /// <param name="filePath">Path where model should be saved.</param>
-        public void Save<TSource>(IDataLoader<TSource> model, string filePath)
+        public void SaveDataLoader<TSource>(IDataLoader<TSource> model, string filePath)
         {
             using (var stream = File.Create(filePath))
-                Save(model, stream);
+                SaveDataLoader(model, stream);
         }
 
         /// <summary>
@@ -63,7 +63,7 @@ public void Save<TSource>(IDataLoader<TSource> model, string filePath)
         /// <param name="model">The trained model to be saved</param>
         /// <param name="stream">A writeable, seekable stream to save to.</param>
         public void Save<TSource>(IDataLoader<TSource> loader, ITransformer model, Stream stream) =>
-            Save(new CompositeDataLoader<TSource, ITransformer>(loader, new TransformerChain<ITransformer>(model)), stream);
+            SaveDataLoader(new CompositeDataLoader<TSource, ITransformer>(loader, new TransformerChain<ITransformer>(model)), stream);
 
         /// <summary>
         /// Save a transformer model and the loader used to create its input data to the file.
diff --git a/test/Microsoft.ML.Functional.Tests/ModelLoading.cs b/test/Microsoft.ML.Functional.Tests/ModelLoading.cs
index 193ddedad5..f571583fd4 100644
--- a/test/Microsoft.ML.Functional.Tests/ModelLoading.cs
+++ b/test/Microsoft.ML.Functional.Tests/ModelLoading.cs
@@ -61,7 +61,7 @@ public void LoadModelAndExtractPredictor()
             string modelAndSchemaPath = GetOutputPath(FullTestName + "-model-schema.zip");
             _ml.Model.Save(transformerModel, data.Schema, modelAndSchemaPath);
             string compositeLoaderModelPath = GetOutputPath(FullTestName + "-composite-model.zip");
-            _ml.Model.Save(compositeLoaderModel, compositeLoaderModelPath);
+            _ml.Model.SaveDataLoader(compositeLoaderModel, compositeLoaderModelPath);
             string loaderAndTransformerModelPath = GetOutputPath(FullTestName + "-loader-transformer.zip");
             _ml.Model.Save(loader, transformerModel, loaderAndTransformerModelPath);
 
@@ -190,7 +190,7 @@ public void SaveTextLoaderAndLoad()
             var loader = _ml.Data.CreateTextLoader<InputData>(hasHeader: true, dataSample: file);
 
             string modelPath = GetOutputPath(FullTestName + "-model.zip");
-            _ml.Model.Save(loader, modelPath);
+            _ml.Model.SaveDataLoader(loader, modelPath);
 
             Load(modelPath, out var loadedWithSchema, out var loadedSchema, out var loadedLoader,
                 out var loadedWithLoader, out var loadedLoaderWithTransformer);
@@ -220,7 +220,7 @@ public void SaveCompositeLoaderAndLoad()
             var model = composite.Fit(file);
 
             string modelPath = GetOutputPath(FullTestName + "-model.zip");
-            _ml.Model.Save(model, modelPath);
+            _ml.Model.SaveDataLoader(model, modelPath);
 
             Load(modelPath, out var loadedWithSchema, out var loadedSchema, out var loadedLoader,
                 out var loadedWithLoader, out var loadedLoaderWithTransformer);