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[Anonymous]

Whenever we save any drawing file from Autocad, it is not overwriting the same file. It renames the original file to <filename>.bak and creates new file with same name. Is there a way to modify this behaviour?

We are uploading autocad files in SharePoint document library and when users are updating the files, we don't have a track of version history because autocad is not overwriting the same file it creates new file with same name everytime we save..

Any help is appreciated

Thankyou.

[Alfred.NESWADBA]

Hi,

>> Whenever we save any drawing file from Autocad, it is not

>> overwriting the same file. It renames the original file to

>> <filename>.bak and creates new file with same name. Is

>> there a way to modify this behaviour?

That is how it works, overwriting the existing file has the big risk that in case of file-write issues the old content is gone and the new content is not saved, so no backup at all and all is destroyed.

You might try to play with MOVEBAK (>>>details<<<), but I guess that does not make anything better (just slower as the BAK file has then to be transferred too)