Automatic Save

[Anonymous]

Everytime I start AutoCAD Civil 3D 2009 SP2 I have to go to Options and turn
on my Automatic Save.
Anyone know what could be turning it off?

[Sinc]

I keep mine off. When I turn it on, I seem to run into that annoying "A command is in progress" error (although I haven't tried it now since pre-SP 2009 - is this still a problem?). Although, after keeping Autosave turned off ever since I first started using C3D 2007, I'm kind of used to it by now.

-- Sinc
http://www.ejsurveying.com
http://www.quuxsoft.com (Sincpac-C3D)

[Anonymous]

I used to had the same school of thought until last
week when our snap server went bad. Yes we had everything backed up to tape
drive but there was about two weeks worth of work that went bye bye. (hey I'm
not the network guy). Anyways that autosave saved me much work. Thank
goodness I had it on. FWIW use it or not but this time it saved me!

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I
keep mine off. When I turn it on, I seem to run into that annoying "A command
is in progress" error (although I haven't tried it now since pre-SP 2009 - is
this still a problem?). Although, after keeping Autosave turned off ever since
I first started using C3D 2007, I'm kind of used to it by now. -- Sinc
http://www.ejsurveying.com http://www.quuxsoft.com
(Sincpac-C3D)

[O.Maille]

I get the same problem with 2010 and 2011, i think if it crashes during an autosave then it gets disabled, it appears to be a recurring problem that autocad autosaves regardless of processing load at the time, resulting in crashes.

[AllenJessup]

I Don't know what might be turning it off. But a workaround would be to set in on in a startup lisp.

BTW I'm on the same release as you and don't have that problem.

Allen

[AllenJessup]

I create a separate folder and point Autosave to save there. I have the folder set to Read-Only. So even when Civil 3D closes normally the backup files aren't deleted. You just have to remember to clean out what you don't want every once in a while. I'll leave one for each day as a record and burn them off to a DVD every couple of months.

Allen

[MSBryan]

I do like Allen does and create a temp folder that I roam through and cleanout periodically....

Been doing this for years, many prior to Civil 3d and have used this from Civil 3d 2008 on up.

In my acaddoc.lsp file I have the following line

(command "SAVETIME" 10) 

this sets (or resets) the autosave variable at the start of every drawing.  Autosave may cause slow downs and even fatal errors during complex processes, but I have rarely lost more than 5 minutes of work and sometimes the crash actually helped by forcing me to rethink the process I was attempting.

Just another option or thought process

Good luck,

MB

[O.Maille]

The "SAVETIME" works well, I also include a batch file in the save folder with the following;

ren *.sv$ *.dwg
ren *.bak *.dwg

Makes the drawings easier to sort and open