Mike has another fatal error AS7

[Anonymous]

After spending several hours updating a drawing, just as I was putting
the final touches on, up pops an error message that says something to
the effect that a fatal internal error has occurred and the application
will have to shut down and it gave me the option to save the file as a
recovery file. So I save it as a recovery file and AS7 shuts down. I
then check the file I was working on and it is now only 24 KB, it had
started the day at over 1300 KB. I restart AS and try to open it and
even though it still has a .SKF extension and it previews O.K. I get a
message that it is an unknown file type. I then open the recovery file
and it appears that the whole file is there. I re-saved it as a .SKF
with a different name and everything seems to be back to how it was
before I got the fatal error message (except for a new file name) so
no-harm-no-foul I guess. I am just curious what could have caused
this. Is it something that I did and can be prevented or is it an
inherent problem with AS? Even though I do have the file backed up,
that's an awful scary error message to get when you're that far along
with a drawing.

Thanks,
Mike

[Anonymous]

Mike,

Not being a pro, I have no technical explanation but remember
well the panic it caused every time I read such a message.
You were lucky, I had to redo a day' work quite often until
I followed Paul's recommendation to use "Save as" almost
every hour. Now it still happens occasionally when I forget
"Save as" before making a test print but at least it never
is a total loss anymore.

Gerhard

mike wrote:
>
> After spending several hours updating a drawing, just as I was putting
> the final touches on, up pops an error message that says something to
> the effect that a fatal internal error has occurred and the application
> will have to shut down and it gave me the option to save the file as a
> recovery file. So I save it as a recovery file and AS7 shuts down. I
> then check the file I was working on and it is now only 24 KB, it had
> started the day at over 1300 KB. I restart AS and try to open it and
> even though it still has a .SKF extension and it previews O.K. I get a
> message that it is an unknown file type. I then open the recovery file
> and it appears that the whole file is there. I re-saved it as a .SKF
> with a different name and everything seems to be back to how it was
> before I got the fatal error message (except for a new file name) so
> no-harm-no-foul I guess. I am just curious what could have caused
> this. Is it something that I did and can be prevented or is it an
> inherent problem with AS? Even though I do have the file backed up,
> that's an awful scary error message to get when you're that far along
> with a drawing.
>
> Thanks,
> Mike