Recover file size

[dstevens_bellefeng]

Why is it, after a crash that my recover drawing file is not complete. I have a 2mb drawing and the recover file is only 3kb. When you try to open it I get the "Drawing file is not valid" error.

[sboon]

It happens sometimes.  The software is not able to save everything before the crash.

[dstevens_bellefeng]

It seems to be happening every time.

[sboon]

Then you have a seriously f'd up drawing.  Generally I only see invalid recovery drawings after 10-20% of my crashes.  You may want to try exporting everything you can and starting over from a clean template.

[AllenJessup]

What version are you on. The further you go back, the less likely it is that you'll get a valid file. (In my opinion)

Allen

[dstevens_bellefeng]

The latest and greatest from what Autodesk claims.

Civil 3D 2012 sp1

Windows 7 pro

i7 processor

nvidia Quadro 2000

[_Hathaway]

Civil3d 2012 - Whenever we crash, which isn't alot but it does happen, the recovery file is ALWAYS 1-5kb and contains nothing.  This is emulated on 4 different cpus and drawings of all sorts.  We have never successfully recovered a dwg after a crash.

[dibr0804]

Whenever I crash a .dwg about 95% of them are invalid... and it seems like the reason why it crashes is because of an autosave; an autosave that never actually saves anything..

[sboon]

Wow - I've crashed 3-4 times today and recovered successfully every single time.  It's a hardware problem - I'm waiting for a new computer but I have to keep working on this one for now.  The recovery file that I'm opening up while typing is 120MB, and I'm back to work no problems.

[jmayo-EE]

You have the same app, OS, processor and graphics card as I do. I am able to recover most of my recovery files in 2012.

What is in the files that keep crashing?

[AllenJessup]

That's strange. I have some pretty messed up drawing right now and even with them I get good recovery files 4 out of 5 times.

Allen

[dstevens_bellefeng]

The drawing is crashing on a cross section layout.

I'm sure it's a file problem and I'll work it out. Not the first corrupt ACAD file I've had to deal with.

Also, I believe the reduced file size started when I upgraded from C3D 2010 to C3D2012.

[Neilw_05]

There are lots of posts about problems with Recover. I can't explain why it works for some but not for others. You might find an answer if you go through them.

[dstevens_bellefeng]

Thank you Neil.

I will pursue it there.

[MaryBell1]

Has anyone found a solution to this issue.... With the program being as unstable as it is (at least for me) you would think a fix for this would be priority for Autodesk. Unless I'm using the recover drawing the wrong way. In previous versions of LDT I didn't often crash. In C3D its a common occurance in some drawings. I have been opening it from the Drawing recovery manager and it NEVER work... not once out of maybe 50 crashes has it worked. The file obviously is too small. My work around is setting the autosave to every 10 mins but just wish the recover drawings were usable.