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ronpemberton7479
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‎02-14-2014 10:34 AM
‎02-14-2014 10:34 AM

Autosave

Why does AutoCAD turn off the autosave randomly? I always have my autosave turned but on two occasions in the last two days I have went to recover a drawing after a crash and the autosave is turned off with no autosave drawings available. This has also happened a number of times in the past in different versions. I am running civil 3D 2012 currently.

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sboon
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‎02-14-2014 10:53 AM
‎02-14-2014 10:53 AM

Autosave is turned off during the publish process.  If you crash during that step then it's still turned off when you restart.

 

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KirkNoonan
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‎02-14-2014 01:41 PM
‎02-14-2014 01:41 PM

Kind of like the filedia setting, It often gets turned off after a crash. A lot of folks use a startup script that turns it on. If you haven't yet, you should get in the habit of checking after ACAD crashes.
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neilyj666
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‎02-17-2014 01:24 AM
‎02-17-2014 01:24 AM

Yes, this is my preference; add the following to acaddoc.lsp

(setvar "SAVETIME" 10)

neilyj (No connection with Autodesk other than using the products in the real world)
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rkmcswain
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‎02-17-2014 08:29 AM
‎02-17-2014 08:29 AM

Of if you really want to be on top of it... piggyback it on a command you use often..... for example:

 

(defun c:E ()
 (setvar "savetime" 10)
 (command "._erase")
)

 

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