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How to recover AutoCAD DWG file ?

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DonaldMParnell
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How to recover AutoCAD DWG file ?

Tried to recover bak file, but there is no bak file in temporary files. AutoCAD didn’t  recover the file itself. The version is 2014.  There migt be some error occurred in saving process.  Don’t know any solutions. Please help me to repair this file.   

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apurva_123
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you can use drawing utilities->recover option if u saved it atleast once. It will recover till last save.

After selecting option from file menu you can search your file backup in opened dialogbox. please find attached image.

and if still you are not getting bak file then you have to search it in folder where dwg is saved.Untitled.png

I hope this will help you.

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In the setting of AutoCAD options (options) in the File tab (the leftmost tab) there is a path autosave. There AutoCAD saves temporary files, usually with the extension ac $ (in the tab opening and saving) .You must look for it. Generally, if there are files, they can be found by date, and they can be seen the empty volume or not. To open them you need to simply rename, appending the extension DWG. the same can be done with the files with the extension bak. And yet there is a command in AutoCAD recover it allows you to open corrupted files. 

But better to read here on how to open broken DWG file: http://www.filerepairforum.com/forum/cad-tools/cad-tools-aa/dwg/561-how-to-recover-autocad-files-fro...

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Hi,

 

>> but there is no bak file in temporary files

BAK files are not saved in the %TEMP% folder, BAK files are saved in the same folder where the DWG itself is stored.

 

And if you search in the %TEMP% folder, you might find SV$ files that might be opened by recovery manager or by renaming the file to get the "DWG" as extension. (sorry, the AC$ are no DWG-structured files, so renaming them does not help imho).

 

- alfred -

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