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    <title>tema Re: where are my bak files? en AutoCAD for Mac Forum</title>
    <link>https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/autocad-for-mac-forum/where-are-my-bak-files/m-p/12172919#M46618</link>
    <description>&lt;P&gt;More good advice,&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Thank you.&lt;/P&gt;</description>
    <pubDate>Tue, 15 Aug 2023 19:03:56 GMT</pubDate>
    <dc:creator>JEFFJW9BB</dc:creator>
    <dc:date>2023-08-15T19:03:56Z</dc:date>
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      <title>where are my bak files?</title>
      <link>https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/autocad-for-mac-forum/where-are-my-bak-files/m-p/12170266#M46600</link>
      <description>&lt;P&gt;Hello: &amp;nbsp;I messed up something and need to access my .bak files. &amp;nbsp;I have some but not all. &amp;nbsp;Attached is a screen shot of a sample file showing a drawing I saved today but there is no bak file there. why not?&lt;/P&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 14 Aug 2023 17:55:46 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/autocad-for-mac-forum/where-are-my-bak-files/m-p/12170266#M46600</guid>
      <dc:creator>JEFFJW9BB</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2023-08-14T17:55:46Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: where are my bak files?</title>
      <link>https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/autocad-for-mac-forum/where-are-my-bak-files/m-p/12170377#M46602</link>
      <description>&lt;P&gt;Hi&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/10840193"&gt;@JEFFJW9BB&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;,&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Please check at first ISAVEBAK System Variable, it should be 1&amp;nbsp;in order for AutoCAD to create BAK files.&lt;/P&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 14 Aug 2023 19:02:16 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/autocad-for-mac-forum/where-are-my-bak-files/m-p/12170377#M46602</guid>
      <dc:creator>maxim_k</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2023-08-14T19:02:16Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: where are my bak files?</title>
      <link>https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/autocad-for-mac-forum/where-are-my-bak-files/m-p/12170410#M46603</link>
      <description>&lt;P&gt;Thank you. &amp;nbsp;I am set to &amp;lt;1&amp;gt;. &amp;nbsp;screen clip of command box attached to make sure.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Next step?&lt;/P&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 14 Aug 2023 19:20:58 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/autocad-for-mac-forum/where-are-my-bak-files/m-p/12170410#M46603</guid>
      <dc:creator>JEFFJW9BB</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2023-08-14T19:20:58Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: where are my bak files?</title>
      <link>https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/autocad-for-mac-forum/where-are-my-bak-files/m-p/12170488#M46604</link>
      <description>&lt;P&gt;Where you save your drawings?&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Local drive? Network drive? iCloud enabled folder?&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;What AutoCAD version do you use and what macOS installed on your Mac?&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Do yo have this problem with all your drawings?&lt;/P&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 14 Aug 2023 19:52:46 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/autocad-for-mac-forum/where-are-my-bak-files/m-p/12170488#M46604</guid>
      <dc:creator>maxim_k</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2023-08-14T19:52:46Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: where are my bak files?</title>
      <link>https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/autocad-for-mac-forum/where-are-my-bak-files/m-p/12170509#M46605</link>
      <description>Ask an IT person to help you find your files, if you cannot find them after turning on file extensions in Windows File Manager first &lt;A href="https://www.thewindowsclub.com/show-file-extensions-in-windows" target="_blank"&gt;https://www.thewindowsclub.com/show-file-extensions-in-windows&lt;/A&gt; &lt;BR /&gt;&lt;BR /&gt;And read this too for more tools and options &lt;A href="https://www.autodesk.com/support/technical/article/caas/sfdcarticles/sfdcarticles/how-to-recover-lost-work-due-to-a-crash-in-autocad.html" target="_blank"&gt;https://www.autodesk.com/support/technical/article/caas/sfdcarticles/sfdcarticles/how-to-recover-lost-work-due-to-a-crash-in-autocad.html&lt;/A&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 14 Aug 2023 20:00:48 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/autocad-for-mac-forum/where-are-my-bak-files/m-p/12170509#M46605</guid>
      <dc:creator>pendean</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2023-08-14T20:00:48Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: where are my bak files?</title>
      <link>https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/autocad-for-mac-forum/where-are-my-bak-files/m-p/12170527#M46606</link>
      <description>&lt;P&gt;In macOS visibility of file extensions is enabled in the Finder settings:&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;span class="lia-inline-image-display-wrapper lia-image-align-center" image-alt="2023-08-14_23-06-24.png" style="width: 574px;"&gt;&lt;img src="https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/1253147i247F5A922879ACE5/image-dimensions/574x577?v=v2" width="574" height="577" role="button" title="2023-08-14_23-06-24.png" alt="2023-08-14_23-06-24.png" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;But&amp;nbsp;I don't think that's the problem.&lt;/P&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 14 Aug 2023 20:10:12 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/autocad-for-mac-forum/where-are-my-bak-files/m-p/12170527#M46606</guid>
      <dc:creator>maxim_k</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2023-08-14T20:10:12Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: where are my bak files?</title>
      <link>https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/autocad-for-mac-forum/where-are-my-bak-files/m-p/12170560#M46607</link>
      <description>I save my drawings to my folders on my desktop. No network.&lt;BR /&gt;I have AutoCAD LT 2023 on my MAC Ventura 13.4.1&lt;BR /&gt;I see that there was a time when I was creating BAK files but not recently. (since updating to latest version?)&lt;BR /&gt;I cannot make any BAK files from any of my drawings in any of my project files.&lt;BR /&gt;I do see that there are BAK files in my Autodesk program home folder but they are confusing; with long suffix numbers - what are they?&lt;BR /&gt;I also see in that folder some blocks I created - I was looking for them! why do they automatically go there?</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 14 Aug 2023 20:23:57 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/autocad-for-mac-forum/where-are-my-bak-files/m-p/12170560#M46607</guid>
      <dc:creator>JEFFJW9BB</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2023-08-14T20:23:57Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: where are my bak files?</title>
      <link>https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/autocad-for-mac-forum/where-are-my-bak-files/m-p/12170569#M46608</link>
      <description>Unfortunately no IT person in this one-person office. (Me I guess). I am on a Mac so no Windows File Manager.&lt;BR /&gt;I will check out the link.&lt;BR /&gt;But my problem is first: why don't I create BAK files?&lt;BR /&gt;as always, thank you for your help!</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 14 Aug 2023 20:26:19 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/autocad-for-mac-forum/where-are-my-bak-files/m-p/12170569#M46608</guid>
      <dc:creator>JEFFJW9BB</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2023-08-14T20:26:19Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: where are my bak files?</title>
      <link>https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/autocad-for-mac-forum/where-are-my-bak-files/m-p/12170583#M46609</link>
      <description>&lt;P&gt;Interesting! that top box was not checked! &amp;nbsp;See my screen shot&lt;/P&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 14 Aug 2023 20:30:56 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/autocad-for-mac-forum/where-are-my-bak-files/m-p/12170583#M46609</guid>
      <dc:creator>JEFFJW9BB</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2023-08-14T20:30:56Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: where are my bak files?</title>
      <link>https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/autocad-for-mac-forum/where-are-my-bak-files/m-p/12170735#M46610</link>
      <description>&lt;P&gt;Why doe I have all these .bak files in my Documents folder; AutoDesk Autosave folder? &amp;nbsp;This is chaos. &amp;nbsp;Does Autocad do this typically? &amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Why doesn't my program save bak folders in the folder where the drawing are kept?&lt;/P&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 14 Aug 2023 22:00:59 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/autocad-for-mac-forum/where-are-my-bak-files/m-p/12170735#M46610</guid>
      <dc:creator>JEFFJW9BB</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2023-08-14T22:00:59Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: where are my bak files?</title>
      <link>https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/autocad-for-mac-forum/where-are-my-bak-files/m-p/12171374#M46611</link>
      <description>&lt;P&gt;Hi&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/10840193"&gt;@JEFFJW9BB&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;,&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;You show Autosave folder in it's default location.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;If autosave is enabled in AutoCAD settings (this is by default) - AutoCAD saves autosaved drawings with .BAK extension in this folder. This is normal behavior.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;You wrote:&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;"&lt;SPAN&gt;I save my drawings to my folders on my desktop. No network."&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Does your Desktop folder sync with iCloud in macOS System Preferences?&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;&lt;span class="lia-inline-image-display-wrapper lia-image-align-center" image-alt="2023-08-15_09-47-33.png" style="width: 620px;"&gt;&lt;img src="https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/1253272iEFCE0243F2FD3942/image-dimensions/620x605?v=v2" width="620" height="605" role="button" title="2023-08-15_09-47-33.png" alt="2023-08-15_09-47-33.png" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 15 Aug 2023 06:50:49 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/autocad-for-mac-forum/where-are-my-bak-files/m-p/12171374#M46611</guid>
      <dc:creator>maxim_k</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2023-08-15T06:50:49Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: where are my bak files?</title>
      <link>https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/autocad-for-mac-forum/where-are-my-bak-files/m-p/12172046#M46612</link>
      <description>&lt;BLOCKQUOTE&gt;&lt;HR /&gt;&lt;a href="https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/10840193"&gt;@JEFFJW9BB&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;wrote:&lt;BR /&gt;Unfortunately no IT person in this one-person office. (Me I guess)....&lt;HR /&gt;&lt;/BLOCKQUOTE&gt;
&lt;P&gt;Every small business person should have a reliable IT contact to call on when things go haywire. It's like insurance, nobody wants to pay until they need it then "poof".&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;Sorry about the Windows link: I forgot which forum I was in. My apologies. But I'm glad you now see what you should be seeing with file extensions and are no longer operating in the dark my friend.&lt;/P&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 15 Aug 2023 13:21:50 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/autocad-for-mac-forum/where-are-my-bak-files/m-p/12172046#M46612</guid>
      <dc:creator>pendean</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2023-08-15T13:21:50Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: where are my bak files?</title>
      <link>https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/autocad-for-mac-forum/where-are-my-bak-files/m-p/12172129#M46613</link>
      <description>Excellent suggestion! Can you recommend someone? I would like to have a relationship with an IT person, just like I have other professional consultants.&lt;BR /&gt;&lt;BR /&gt;Thank you!</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 15 Aug 2023 13:54:25 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/autocad-for-mac-forum/where-are-my-bak-files/m-p/12172129#M46613</guid>
      <dc:creator>JEFFJW9BB</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2023-08-15T13:54:25Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: where are my bak files?</title>
      <link>https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/autocad-for-mac-forum/where-are-my-bak-files/m-p/12172361#M46615</link>
      <description>&lt;P&gt;Hello: &amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Thank you for your reply.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;I sync with iCloud to keep my laptop in sync with my desktop. &amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;But I don't understand why Autocad is not autosaving the bak files to the folder where the file resides by default.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;I have looked at:&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;A href="https://www.autodesk.com/support/technical/article/caas/sfdcarticles/sfdcarticles/Understanding-AutoCAD-backup-and-autosave-files.html" target="_blank"&gt;https://www.autodesk.com/support/technical/article/caas/sfdcarticles/sfdcarticles/Understanding-AutoCAD-backup-and-autosave-files.html&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;but not very helpful to me.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;any suggestions or advice would be appreciated.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;thanks again,&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Jeff&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 15 Aug 2023 15:02:47 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/autocad-for-mac-forum/where-are-my-bak-files/m-p/12172361#M46615</guid>
      <dc:creator>JEFFJW9BB</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2023-08-15T15:02:47Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: where are my bak files?</title>
      <link>https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/autocad-for-mac-forum/where-are-my-bak-files/m-p/12172764#M46617</link>
      <description>&lt;BLOCKQUOTE&gt;&lt;HR /&gt;&lt;a href="https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/10840193"&gt;@JEFFJW9BB&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;wrote:&lt;BR /&gt;Excellent suggestion! Can you recommend someone? I would like to have a relationship with an IT person, just like I have other professional consultants.&lt;BR /&gt;&lt;BR /&gt;Thank you!&lt;HR /&gt;&lt;/BLOCKQUOTE&gt;
&lt;P&gt;You will want someone local/regional to you ideally, after you interview them and test their skills set with basic tasks on your MacOS device(s). I'm not based in NY.&lt;/P&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 15 Aug 2023 17:55:05 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>pendean</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2023-08-15T17:55:05Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: where are my bak files?</title>
      <link>https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/autocad-for-mac-forum/where-are-my-bak-files/m-p/12172919#M46618</link>
      <description>&lt;P&gt;More good advice,&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Thank you.&lt;/P&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 15 Aug 2023 19:03:56 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/autocad-for-mac-forum/where-are-my-bak-files/m-p/12172919#M46618</guid>
      <dc:creator>JEFFJW9BB</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2023-08-15T19:03:56Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: where are my bak files?</title>
      <link>https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/autocad-for-mac-forum/where-are-my-bak-files/m-p/12173108#M46619</link>
      <description>&lt;P&gt;I downloaded AutoCAD LT for Mac 2024 and my problem is resolved! &amp;nbsp;Many thanks for the time you spent helping me with this problem. &amp;nbsp;I appreciate it very much!&lt;/P&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 15 Aug 2023 20:27:09 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>JEFFJW9BB</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2023-08-15T20:27:09Z</dc:date>
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