Items missing from drawing

[Anonymous]

I created a drawing, saved it, and days later most lines have dissapear. At preview you can see the drawing is complete, but when you open it is incomplete. Checked the BAK file, same thing, and there are no layers shut down. What can I do to recover my drawing? Thanks

[hwalker]

Welcome to the forums.

Search your computer with any files with the extension .SV$ this are files that Autocad automatically saves. You can open these files by just changing the extension to .DWG

Also search your computer for the file, does it find it in more than 1 location? If it does open up the file which has the latest date and see if the work you have done is there,

[Anonymous]

Thanks for responding, I just cheked and there is nothing. Also checked under automatic save .ac$ and there were files but not that one. File is in 1 location. What I cant understand is why at preview I can see drawing is complete, but when opened is incomplete.

[Charles_Shade · Accepted solution]

Preview is nothing more than a snapshot of the last save. It is not an indication of file content.

One more place to try: From the Windows Start menu in the Search Programs and Files dialog type %TEMP% and see if a copy of your file is in this temp folder.

And you say most lines have dissappeared which suggests there is content. Can you post the file?

[pendean]

Are you missing an XREF file? A block? Or XREF layers that got turned off/frozen?
Or have a frozen or OFF layer in the top file?

Content doesn't go missing if there was no crash or other error when you last saved: dig deeper.

[Anonymous]

Thank you so much for the information, I was able to recover one from TEMP that was not 100% but a lot better. Thank you for your help!

Regards