Determine if the Desktop Analytics Program is working

[devin_m]

If I opt-in to the Desktop Analytics Program (DAP) how can I determine that it is working?

This CIP website (http://www.autodesk.com/company/customer-involvement-program) says that DAP collects usage data and sends it to Autodesk daily.

When does it send the data?

Where does it store the collected usage data?

[bryce.thelin · Accepted solution]

The data is sent when AutoCAD closes. To know that it is working, when AutoCAD is launched, you will see an AVRO file (JSON for AutocAD 2017) created here:

C:\Users\<user>\AppData\Roaming\Autodesk\ACD\2016\<version>\MC3\Avro

The .avro file(s) will appear when AutocAD starts up and disappear when it exits.