topic Re: Missing Drawing Recovery File in AutoCAD Forum

Missing Drawing Recovery File

MarkFitz — Mon, 12 Feb 2024 23:08:44 GMT

I'm sure this is going to a be quick one, someone will either know or tell me "tough luck".

I was working on a drawing, turned to my corner desk and didn't realize that my elbow was resting the enter key, you know, the key that repeats the last command. Well, my last command was the letter "U", U for Undo. And it didn't immediately click in my brain once I came back to the screen, so I tried a few other commands before realizing what I'd done, by which time the MREDO command couldn't do anything for me. I tried searching for the file in the drawing recovery command, which shows me a whole bunch of drawings I've worked on, but not the one I'm looking for, so I can't even use my back-up file, because it's not showing in the list.

Does anyone have any idea as to how I can locate the file, the back-up file or the recovery file, why isn't is showing in my list??

Cheers,

MarkF

Re: Missing Drawing Recovery File

MarkFitz — Mon, 12 Feb 2024 23:45:05 GMT

I've found what I think are the back-up/autosave files, but when I double click to look at them, I get an error message saying the file cannot be found and asking me to manually verify.

What do I do??

Re: Missing Drawing Recovery File

paullimapa — Tue, 13 Feb 2024 00:44:09 GMT

do a screen capture showing how these autosave files look like and post that here

Re: Missing Drawing Recovery File

MarkFitz — Tue, 13 Feb 2024 14:00:14 GMT

I came in this morning and saved my open file as a different name, then found my original file and opened it, and it was up to date to the last save, which is good enough, I'm down 2 hours or so, not the whole day.

Still curious to know neither of the back-up files were recognized though...

Re: Missing Drawing Recovery File

pendean — Tue, 13 Feb 2024 15:37:47 GMT

@MarkFitz wrote:

I came in this morning and saved my open file as a different name, then found my original file and opened it, and it was up to date to the last save....

Maybe all you needed to do what restart the PC to fix the issue.

@MarkFitz wrote:

...Still curious to know neither of the back-up files were recognized though...

Hard to tell, you never shared screenshots or the level of detail needed for those over here that had to ability to see what and where your actions were.

Re: Missing Drawing Recovery File

kmartin.bim — Thu, 15 Feb 2024 13:15:33 GMT

Try this:

Recovering a backup (BAK) file:

Open the folder containing the DWG file.
Look for a file with the same name as the one to recover and a BAK extension.
Change the BAK extension to DWG.
Open the file in AutoCAD.

Recovering an autosave (SV$) file:

Open the Autosave folder. On Windows, it is in the Temp folder by default. You can open it by typing %tmp% into the Start menu.
Look for a file with the same name as the one to recover, a timestamp code, and an SV$ extension.
Change the SV$ extension to DWG.
Open the file in AutoCAD.

The error message you’re seeing might be due to a few different reasons:

Invalid File Paths: AutoCAD was installed into a custom directory location, but the DWG Common registry key points to the default path. You can try to edit the Windows registry.
Missing Files: The drawing file for the symbol is either removed or not existing in the configured search paths. You can check the symbol inside the Icon Menu.
Corrupted Files: If the file is corrupted, you might not be able to open it. In this case, you can try to recover the file.