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Autosave inadequacy

dmgraves
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Autosave inadequacy

dmgraves
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Why does the Autosave function not perform adequately?  It is set to save every 10 minutes and I'm lucky if it saves once during a 10 hour shift.

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imadHabash
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Hi,

Automatic saves are only done if a drawing has been modified after the last save. An automatic save will not save to the current drawing. Instead, a temporary file with the extension .sv$ is generated. QSAVE, SAVE, and SAVEAS will delete the current .sv$ file and halt the automatic save timer until an edit is made to the drawing. and for more info please read more here . >> Click <<

 

 

Imad Habash

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Alfred.NESWADBA
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Hi,

 

some questions:

  • have your file had already a filename?
  • was this file more than 10min active/in front (or just one open file within others)?
  • was there any change done within these 10min?

 

Just to make sure: how did you verify that it did not save once within 10min?

 

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vinodkl
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BTW that shouldn't be happening. Are you able to see the drawing being auto saved in the text screen (press F2)?

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dmgraves
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Thanks.  I am aware of all of this.  Unfortunately, even after a file save and during modifications to a file before a next "manual save", the temp .sv$ files are not being created in the put in time frame.  As you know, sometimes you get to going and don't always save every few minutes.  That's where this autosave is supposed to provide help.  It does not.  Multiple instances, no matter where i have worked, across multiple machines and not just me, if a lockup or crash occurs and i/we o to access the temp file....not there.  There may be one from hours earlier, but not within the entered time frame after a save, so data lost and the work has to be done all over.  Sometimes the .bak files in the working directory are not created for some reason.  This is not a recent thing but has gone on for years.  I know the files are not being created because I look to see when I think about it.  I have run experiments and started a drawing, saved it and made mods to it for hours.  No .sv$ file is ever created with it set at 10 mins.  and not just on the machine I am currently working on.

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Alfred.NESWADBA
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Hi,

 

>> the temp .sv$ files are not being created in the put in time frame.

Besides of <CTRL><S> should be the friend to avoid that I would now try to set the autosave interval to 1min, then restart AutoCAD, create a new dwg-file and save it with a new name, now draw a line, every 10sec one command start ... does autosave work in that case?

  • Do you see the message that AutoCAD is doing the autosave in the command-line?
  • Do you get an SV$ file created in your folder for autosave-files?

 

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