has this ever happened to you?

[Godsey]

i was working on wall sections and i went to edit a block in the drawing. while in the block editor, i hit drawing save it crashed and when i opened up the drawing  the only thing in the drawing was the block that i was editing. it was like it was stuck in the block editting mode but i couldnt exit that mode. the file still about 1meg of information so the drawing may still be still there. also the back up file is also the same as the main drawing. anyone have any suggestions?

[pendean]

file size is no indication of recovery potential, it may all be lost: see if you have an autosave file you can rename, or a BAK file you can rename and use. Then there is always the backup from the day before.

Are you using ACA2012? if so, there is a patch for that problem I believe, grab it.

[ntellery]

Yes it has happened to me. Feels like you are in an episode of Star Trek and is about as believable.

Can't remember that it was such a problem but can't think of the solution except I think I went to a backup copy.

Problem with this new pathetic interface is it's very easy to close the whole drawing instead of the block editor. That is a design fault.

[pendean · Accepted solution]

Did you grab the hotfix? it is a universal AutoCAD 2012 problem they fixed with a patch:

http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet/ps/dl/item?siteID=123112&id=17302261&linkID=9240658

[Godsey]

yes i downloaded the hotfix along with the service pack. the problem is that it also screwed the backup and i lost about a weeks worth of work.

[pendean]

I've never seen a patch or update do that before.