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Autosave runs and then nothing works....? (Civil 3d 2012)

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Message 1 of 11
chris_little
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Autosave runs and then nothing works....? (Civil 3d 2012)

Good morning all,

 

Have recently upgraded to C3D 2012. This has happened for the last three weeks, but not everytime.

I'm working along and the Autosave kicks in. I have it set to 10 minutes.

I notice it because it does weird things, the ribbon goes all wonky for a second, the Drawing Corrd. in the bottom get all whacked out, and some of the icon tools blink. All like it's trying to regenerate the screen or something. The command line sort of scrolls and then clears up. When I hit F2 it all looks normal.

 

BUT then the crosshairs have disappeared, and I can't click on anything.(the cursor shows up if you move off the Autocad work space and go to a windows op. I can type commands into the command line, but it all comes back "Unknown command".

The command help thing even pops up (the thing you use to have to hit the Tab key for)

 

 

Heres a cut and paste from the Text window:

Command:

Command:

Command: _copybase Specify base point: 2 found

Command: Automatic save to C:\Users\clittle\documents\projects\autocad autosave\ST1205 - 08 - Traffic Control - TCP-01_06 - 2-10-12_1_1_2527.sv$ ...

Command:     (at this point there were no crosshairs)

Command: REGEN

Unknown command "REGEN".  Press F1 for help.

Command: SAVE

Unknown command "SAVE".  Press F1 for help.

Command: CLOSE

Unknown command "CLOSE".  Press F1 for help.

Command: QSAVE

Unknown command "QSAVE".  Press F1 for help.

Command: l

LINE Unknown command "LINE".  Press F1 for help.

Command: open

Unknown command "OPEN".  Press F1 for help.

Command: SET

SETVAR Unknown command "SETVAR".  Press F1 for help.

Command: pieceofjunk

Unknown command "PIECEOFJUNK".  Press F1 for help.

Command: RECOVER

Unknown command "RECOVER".  Press F1 for help.

 

Anyone have any ideas? I REALLY don't want to loose what I have done. or for it to keep happening.

Thanks, Chris

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Message 2 of 11
chris_little
in reply to: chris_little

OK update:

I opened the autosave dwg file and it seemed to work, cross hairs came back and the program worked as expected. I could switch between the autosave dwg and the open file that didn't work. But then a Windows message poped up

and then it crashed all the way out.

Message 3 of 11
AllenJessup
in reply to: chris_little

Hopefully you've opened the program again and it brought up the recovery center and gave you a chance to open or recover your drawing.

 

Has this only happened on one drawing? Does it happen if another user is logged on?

 

Allen



Allen Jessup
Engineering Specialist / CAD Manager

Message 4 of 11
chris_little
in reply to: AllenJessup

Hey Allen,

 

Yes it opened and I was able to start from that last autosave. Autosave worked and saved the file.

 

I'm the only user on this machine, and we have stand alone copies.

No one else has had this problem and it only happens every once in a while, but it does happen in differnt drawings.

It's occured 3 or 4 times since I got it a few weeks ago.

 

Another person has had the crosshairs go away, but they could still type qsave and close the program and open it and they came back.

 

 

Message 5 of 11
terryl
in reply to: chris_little

I've seen the crosshairs go away, but all I had to do was switch to a different drawing in the tool space and then back again and it was fine.  I've also had it switch to a different drawing I had open all by itself.  If i keep only one drawing open at a time I do not see any problems like this.

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Message 6 of 11
SethHall
in reply to: terryl

This sounds like there is either a 3rd party conflict, or your original installation is corrupted. Please try diagnostic mode and see if that helps: http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet/ps/dl/item?siteID=123112&id=6453117&linkID=9240617 

 

Do you have Update 1 installed? I would try that as well:

http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet/ps/dl/index?siteID=123112&id=2334435&linkID=9240698#section2 


Seth Hall
Product Owner
Model Builder
Message 7 of 11
chris_little
in reply to: SethHall

Thank guys for replying.

 

Seth I do have SP1 installed.

 

I'll try diagnostic mode and see what I come up with. Right now it's been running ok.  I do sometimes still see the command line start to scroll when it autosaves or if I open the layer manager window or sometimes the xref window, But not all the time. When it starts acting up today I run this suggestion.

 

Thanks,

Chris

 

Message 8 of 11
wfberry
in reply to: chris_little

I noticed that you did not try the "saveas" command.  This usually works.

 

Bill

 

 

Message 9 of 11
chris_little
in reply to: wfberry

Hey Bill,

 

Yes, I didn't. After it came back with "unknown" on the first one I knew how it was going to end up. Saveas didn't work either in the past. Actually nothing that was typed in would work. I couldn't pick anything either cause the crosshair were gone.

 

If I did wait long enough for the autosave to run again it would run and show up in the command line, but that's all.

I figure since it's just a script it was running and showed up.

 

 

Message 10 of 11
chris_little
in reply to: chris_little

OK, it's at it again. I was in my other office assy. a plan set and came back to it.

 

The last thing I did was print.

 

Here's a cut and paste from the history window.

 

Command: Automatic save to C:\Users\clittle\documents\projects\autocad autosave\ST1205 - 05 - Erosion Control - EC-01_03 - 6-11-12_1_1_1267.sv$ ...

Command: Automatic save to C:\Users\clittle\documents\projects\autocad autosave\ST1205 - 05 - Erosion Control - EC-01_03 - 6-11-12_1_1_1267.sv$ ...

Command: *Cancel*

Command:  Unknown command "LAYOUT_CONTROL".  Press F1 for help.

Command: *Cancel*

Command: *Cancel*

Command: *Cancel*

Command: *Cancel*

Command: *Cancel*

Command: SAVE Unknown command "SAVE".  Press F1 for help.

Command: SAVEAS Unknown command "SAVEAS".  Press F1 for help.

Command: SAVEALL

Initializing...

Command: _QSAVE Unknown command "QSAVE".  Press F1 for help.

Command: *Cancel*

Command: *Cancel*

Command: _close Unknown command "CLOSE".  Press F1 for help.

Command: *Cancel*

Command: *Cancel*

Command: _close Unknown command "CLOSE".  Press F1 for help.

Command: *Cancel*

Command: *Cancel*

Command: _close Unknown command "CLOSE".  Press F1 for help.

Command: *Cancel*

 

Message 11 of 11
chris_little
in reply to: chris_little

Smiley Surprised Oh look- SP2 is out! 

 

 let me try that.

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