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Me and my colleague, we were working on a project in our urbanism class. I brought my laptop, we opened a file we previously worked on (called 'govno1.dwg') and changed just about everything.
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After four and a half hours of work, we have shown what we had done to our professor (we brought the laptop to her desk and she looked at our AutoCAD file). As soon as we have finished, another colleague of mine asked me if he could use my laptop to show what he'd done to professor. He brought his USB stick and used my laptop to demonstrate his work. Unfortunately when he closed my (our govno1.dwg) file he chose NOT to save changes.
I don't have to tell you that in all 4,5 hours of work neither me nor my colleague saved any changes in work (YES! I am aware that's awfully stupid of us!).That was on December the 20th 2006. It was the last day before the 'winter break' and I haven't touched that file since. Today, on 9th of January 2007, I was planning to start working on urbanism again. I opened the govno1.dwg file and, of course, none of the work was there. I used the govno1.bak file and changed it's name to govno2.dwg but there was even less change than in the first file.
I searched around a bit more and found in Local SettingsTemp directory another govno1somethingsomethin.bak file which was about 15 minutes of work after the original govno1.dwg.I don't know what else to do. I have a feeling that there isn't much that can be done and that we'll have to do everything from the beginning and that this is a lesson learned hard, but.
I wish if anyone could help me.Thank you. Srdan wrote: Me and my colleague, we were working on a project in our urbanism class. I brought my laptop, we opened a file we previously worked on (called 'govno1.dwg') and changed just about everything. After four and a half hours of work, we have shown what we had done to our professor (we brought the laptop to her desk and she looked at our AutoCAD file). As soon as we have finished, another colleague of mine asked me if he could use my laptop to show what he'd done to professor. He brought his USB stick and used my laptop to demonstrate his work. Unfortunately when he closed my (our govno1.dwg) file he chose NOT to save changes.
I don't have to tell you that in all 4,5 hours of work neither me nor my colleague saved any changes in work (YES! I am aware that's awfully stupid of us!).
That was on December the 20th 2006. It was the last day before the 'winter break' and I haven't touched that file since. Today, on 9th of January 2007, I was planning to start working on urbanism again. I opened the govno1.dwg file and, of course, none of the work was there.
I used the govno1.bak file and changed it's name to govno2.dwg but there was even less change than in the first file. I searched around a bit more and found in Local SettingsTemp directory another govno1somethingsomethin.bak file which was about 15 minutes of work after the original govno1.dwg. I don't know what else to do. I have a feeling that there isn't much that can be done and that we'll have to do everything from the beginning and that this is a lesson learned hard, but. I wish if anyone could help me. Thank you.Chip is right - save, save and when you think you have saved enoughtimes, SAVE IT AGAIN!Also, DO NOT TAKE YOUR LAPTOP to class - take a flash (stick drive withthe files). I'll second what Jason Rhymes mentions: search your C: drive for.sv$If you find one that looks like it's named and dated similar to what you'remissing, simply rename the extension 'dwg' and open it up (I think 06 willopen sv$ though, too).
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AutoCAD has a SAVETIME variable that, if it's not =0, will save to sv$ every so often (mines setat 20 minutes, but I think it'sat 10 by default)wrote in message news:[email protected] and my colleague, we were working on a project in our urbanism class. Ibrought my laptop, we opened a file we previously worked on (called'govno1.dwg') and changed just about everything.
After four and a half hoursof work, we have shown what we had done to our professor (we brought thelaptop to her desk and she looked at our AutoCAD file). As soon as we havefinished, another colleague of mine asked me if he could use my laptop toshow what he'd done to professor. He brought his USB stick and used mylaptop to demonstrate his work. Unfortunately when he closed my (ourgovno1.dwg) file he chose NOT to save changes. I don't have to tell you thatin all 4,5 hours of work neither me nor my colleague saved any changes inwork (YES!
I am aware that's awfully stupid of us!).That was on December the 20th 2006. It was the last day before the 'winterbreak' and I haven't touched that file since. Today, on 9th of January 2007,I was planning to start working on urbanism again. I opened the govno1.dwgfile and, of course, none of the work was there. I used the govno1.bak fileand changed it's name to govno2.dwg but there was even less change than inthe first file. I searched around a bit more and found in LocalSettingsTemp directory another govno1somethingsomethin.bak file which wasabout 15 minutes of work after the original govno1.dwg.I don't know what else to do.
I have a feeling that there isn't much thatcan be done and that we'll have to do everything from the beginning and thatthis is a lesson learned hard, but. I wish if anyone could help me.Thank you. Files that are closed normally, saved or not, do not retain an SV$ file.AutoCAD assumes you don't need it and cleans up after itself by erasing theSV$ files. However, when AutoCAD autosaves it makes a backup (BAK) of theSV$ but does not clean the backups. This is what the original poster found.Also, the default for SAVETIME is 120 (2 freakin' hours) so I force all ofmy users to a max of 10 minutes. Personally, I set SAVETIME at 3 minsbecause my machine can handle it on the average drawing. One benefit isthat I get a very young BAK file from autosave.
Also, autosave only fireswhile you're working.if you walk away for two hours it won't fire. I'mnot sure if it restarts the timer when you return or simply continues.Moral of the story: save, ad infinitum.Josh'Dave Drahn' wrote in messagenews:[email protected]'ll second what Jason Rhymes mentions: search your C: drive for.sv$If you find one that looks like it's named and dated similar to what you'remissing, simply rename the extension 'dwg' and open it up (I think 06 willopen sv$ though, too).
AutoCAD has a SAVETIME variable that, if it's not =0, will save to sv$ every so often (mines setat 20 minutes, but I think it'sat 10 by default). Josh wrote: Files that are closed normally, saved or not, do not retain an SV$ file. AutoCAD assumes you don't need it and cleans up after itself by erasing the SV$ files. However, when AutoCAD autosaves it makes a backup (BAK) of the SV$ but does not clean the backups. This is what the original poster found. Also, the default for SAVETIME is 120 (2 freakin' hours) so I force all of my users to a max of 10 minutes.
Personally, I set SAVETIME at 3 mins because my machine can handle it on the average drawing. One benefit is that I get a very young BAK file from autosave.
Also, autosave only fires while you're working.if you walk away for two hours it won't fire. I'm not sure if it restarts the timer when you return or simply continues. Moral of the story: save, ad infinitum.
Josh 'Dave Drahn' wrote in message news:[email protected]. I'll second what Jason Rhymes mentions: search your C: drive for.sv$ If you find one that looks like it's named and dated similar to what you're missing, simply rename the extension 'dwg' and open it up (I think 06 will open sv$ though, too). AutoCAD has a SAVETIME variable that, if it's not = 0, will save to sv$ every so often (mines setat 20 minutes, but I think it's at 10 by default)Okay, this is not always the case, i.e., I change the path of myautomatic saved files to c:tmp. Autocad doesn't.know.
they are thereand doesn't delete them so I always have a bunch of them in my tmpdirectory. Hi Josh,I once watched a serious saving user with Autosave on 5 minutes. Since when is anything 'always the case' with AutoCAD? :-) 'Dave Drahn' wrote in message news:[email protected].
I'll second what Jason Rhymes mentions: search your C: drive for.sv$ If you find one that looks like it's named and dated similar to what you're missing, simply rename the extension 'dwg' and open it up (I think 06 will open sv$ though, too). AutoCAD has a SAVETIME variable that, if it's not = 0, will save to sv$ every so often (mines setat 20 minutes, but I think it's at 10 by default)Okay, this is not always the case, i.e., I change the path of myautomatic saved files to c:tmp. Autocad doesn't.know. they are thereand doesn't delete them so I always have a bunch of them in my tmpdirectory. Of course I wouldn't set autosave so low for a 50Mb drawing but I don't dealwith drawings that size, ever. Our average drawing size is 500Kb which is acouple of seconds in autosave operation.I don't notice it usually.Appearing busy is easy.I just wrote a program to zoom around aimlessly atrandom intervals and learned to sleep sitting up at a job I disliked.theyalso wanted 11-hour days on a regular basis.'
Reliable' doesn't exist in my vocabulary as far as a small Windows networkfor 50 people goes so I'll take all the 'help' I can get from the software.I got into the habit of a low autosave back in R12 when I would routinelycrash AutoCAD because I hit too many keys too fast and the poor programcouldn't keep up. :-)'Laurie Comerford' wrote in messagenews:[email protected] Josh,I once watched a serious saving user with Autosave on 5 minutes.
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