Automatic saves

[leedavis]

Please help

I have just installed Acad 2000 LT on to a new machine. the machine has now been running for a week with no problems except it does not autosave. I have set the autosave for every 10 mins within the options/open & save tab and even changed the file location in options/files tab, is there anything else i can try.

Cheers

Lee

[Anonymous]

The autosave actually doesnt save your dwg file. It creates a file with a ac$ extension. Its usually used for backup purposes, but it can be used by renaming the ac$ to dwg. I would suggest looking it up in ACLT help for a more detailed explanation.
Hope that helps, if not let us know in more detail what your exact problem is.
Kind Reagrds,
Matthew Corbin

[leedavis]

Im am looking for the sv$ extension, i have found the ac$ files no problem but where is the sv$???

[Anonymous]

Taken directly from ACLT help files...

Issue

The automatic save file, nameed auto.sv$, is missing.

Solution

In prior versions of the software, the default name of the automatic save file is auto.sv$. This file name is no longer used; the naming convention for the automatic save file is now .sv$.


To locate automatic save files, use the Find Files option in Windows® Explorer to search for files that have a .sv$ file name extension.

If that doesn't work then try typing "savefilepath". That should return the path name where all your Autosave files are going.

Kind regards,
Matthew Corbin

[Anonymous]

Learn to se QSAVE, and turn BAK file creation on in OPTIONS command,
AutoSAVE is only there as a last resort if your system crashes and you need
to recover a file. Then you look for SV$ extension files wherever you have
them set to, rename the extension to DWG, and you hopefully get your file
back.

It is never a good idea to just be a patsy and rely on a Windows machine and
AutoCAD to save files for you. Take control, use SAVE.

IMPORTANT: set ISAVEPERCENT to 0 (zero). Also install all patches for
LT2000, especially the PLOTUPDATE patch.

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