Closing autocad

[gotphish001]

Is it just mine, but when I try to use the drop down menu on the big "A" in the top left corner. If you double click on it by mistake it closes autocad, and doesn't save anything. If I do that by accident a few more times I'm going to drive to autodesk to scream at them. I've lost work so many times with that stupid thing. It's super easy for me do. Is there a way to shut that off? I can't be the only one that has does it.

[David_W_Koch]

Yes, you are not alone.  But if you have unsaved work, it should throw up an alert dialog asking if you want to save each file that has unsaved work.

My problem is impatience.  There is often a slight delay from the time you click on the Application Menu icon and the time it deploys; my brain decides I must have mis-clicked and tells my finger to click again.  The do you want to save this file alert offers a cancel button, which cancels closing the program.  That has saved me from having to reopen the program many times, although some files that had no changes may have closed before AutoCAD got to one that had unsaved changes.

[rkmcswain]

That is a Windows function that has existed since Windows 3.11 I believe (double-click on the program icon closes the program).  Try it on Calc or Notepad or any other Windows app.

Now, having said that, why did Autodesk decide to take over this Windows button instead of making their own? Who knows.

This has been a problem since the Application Menu was introduced. *** COMPLICATING *** this is that the Application Menu also contains the list of recent files. And we all know what happens to the list of recent files. It ends up containing links to files and folders that no longer exist (because they were deleted or the drive was removable, etc.)..

So what happens when you click the big button....? A delay while AutoCAD asks the O/S to go resolve these links. Then what do we do? Our brain thinks we missed the click - so we click again... and voila, those two clicks are stored up in memory until they are executed in succession and boom - close the App....

If DBMOD = 0 on all open docs, it will close as you say. But if DBMOD/= 0 on any document, it will prompt you to save.

It will do no good to gripe about it here I'm afraid. The product managers are not trolling the forums looking for things to fix. Go to the Product Feedback page and let them know there. I know for a FACT those emails are read.

There is also a free app here, to clean the recent docs list.

[dgorsman]

I've done that a few times at first but after some retraining of the muscle memory it isn't a problem now.  Not much different than adapting to a new mouse.  Just keep on it and it shouldn't be a problem for you either.

[gotphish001]

I've never had it ask me to save anything. It just closes like it's crashing. Believe me there's a huge delay between it closing and me realizing I did it. You can mumble a lot of expletives in that time.  If you close ACA with the X in the top right it asks you to save stuff I think we out checking.