Do .dwg files not prompt for save at close?

[jyager]

Yes, I should be clicking save.

Sometimes however I'll have several sketches open and I'll be making a quick change, for instance a few sketches only needing dates changed...or maybe adding a dimension or a weld. I may print it...be done and click close only to go back to tweak something else and have to redo those minor changes.

Years of autocad has me used to clicking drawings closed without having to worry about my changes not being saved. Is there some reason why this isn't a function?

[cbenner]

Are you saying it is closing files that have been changed without prompting for save, or are these files that have been opened but not modified?

[jyager]

Sorry, let me clarify.

I open a file, change something minor only to the .dwg file...a weld, add a dimension...add or change a note. No model changes, strictly .dwg.

Someone else comes into my cubicle and I rapidly need to switch gears...not thinking (because regular autocad does this even if you pan around in the drawing and try to close it), I close the drawing I just changed to open something else (usually there's multiple drawings open and I'm doing a balancing act).

Two hours later a project engineer comes back down deciding maybe we need another note on that original file, I open it and the previous change is not there because when I closed it in a rush it didn't prompt me for a save and I lost what I did.

[JDMather]

I could not reproduce this in 2013 or 2014.

I saved file.

Made a change (add text note).

Try to close the file without saving and I am prompted to save.

[jyager]

Interesting. This happens to me all the time, thanks for looking into it though.

[rdyson]

Check these, don't know that's the problem but might be.

[jyager]

Both of my prompts are "always" with response "no", not sure on the functionality of that?

Does that mean doing those actions will always provide the prompt? What difference would having yes or no as the response be? Would yes just automatically save it?

[johnsonshiue]

Hi! If the drawing file is indeed altered (dirtied) and the Save is not prompted on close, it is a bug. If you have reproducible steps, please let me know asap.

Many thanks!

[jyager]

I just did it again this morning.

Have a .dwg, with 2 views already on it of an assembly with two plates.

Created two new views of view reps of just the singluar plates to detail out. Dimensioned them...printed and walekd away. Came back to my desk, went to open something else and clicked the x to close.

Realized what i did and opened the file to find that the two new view rep views were indeed not saved, nor was there any prompt before closing.

[johnsonshiue]

Hi! The behavior is concerning but I still need more infromation in order to understand why it happens. Could you uncehck the following option and see if you still encounter the behavior?

Tools -> Application Options -> Drawing -> uncheck "Enable background updates" at the bottom -> OK.

Thanks!

[bob_holland]

Jason,

If you log into this computer as a different user does it still happen?

Thank you.

[jyager]

I now have a completely new install on a new computer. Files stored locally instead of the network. I am still having this issue.

I Just opened a previously saved .dwg file that had it's model updated recently with a few parts added in. A couple of the parts on the parts list were out of order numerically (compared with the BOM) so I deleted the parts list and inserted a new one...easy fix. Updated all sheets and went to save.

I clicked save and nothing happened. Clicked save again...nothing. Grabbed a single item balloon and moved it a fraction of an inch on the drawing clicked save again and it started saving.

It seems like it does not want to acknowledge parts list or title block changes as drawing changes worth saving. Several time in the past couple days I've opened an older sketch just to update the date and reprint with a current date. Closed the file and had to make a quick change a few minutes later after engineer review and found that the date/TB changes were not saved.

[jyager]

This morning I actually added a detail view and annotated it...then someone came in and i had to switch gears and I hit the X. I immediately knew I screwed up (well not really...everything else on earth prompts for a save) and re-opened the drawing to see the detail view not there.

So basically it seems like theres a whole variety of different things I can do that do no warrant a save at close.

[Anonymous]

This behavior is also occuring on my PC, Acad 2014.

Has a resolution been found?

Thanks.