Disabling autosave permanently

[Anonymous]

Autosaving is highly disruptive to our work as saving takes a long time. Accordingly we've tried a few things:

- Increasing the autosave interval

- Disabling automatic save

- Disabling "create backup copy with each save"

These steps resolve the issue temporarily but when the drawing is reopened autosave is re-enabled and the interval is reset to 15 minutes. Is there any way to permanently disable autosave?

Thanks.

[Alfred.NESWADBA]

Hi,

>> but when the drawing is reopened autosave is re-enabled

>> and the interval is reset to 15 minutes.

If you uncheck the checkbox in the OPTIONS dialog (shown in the screenshot), then it should not reset itself to enabled.

If it activates itself after AutoCAD is restarted or after you logged out and back in to your Windows, then your AutoCAD profile is not saved in the registry. This is more then an issue of permissions, not of AutoCAD.

OR ... someone added a tool AutoCAD (could be ACADDOC.LSP, ACAD.LSP and a lot more) which set the autosave to active, then you need to speak with the guy who implemented that.

- alfred -

[Anonymous]

Hi Alfred, 

Thanks for your response. My guess it it's the registry issue. How do I go about solving that?

[Alfred.NESWADBA]

Hi,

First you need to identify when the setting resets.

First start AutoCAD, then in OPTIONS disable the checkbox for autosave and now

• create a new document ... check the setting in OPTIONS
• close AutoCAD, reopen AutoCAD, create a new document, check the setting
• logout from Windows, login, start AutoCAD, new document, check setting
• restart workstation, all again

Which of these steps hold the autosave setting disabled, which of these steps activate the setting

- alfred -

[Anonymous]

After saving a drawing with autosave disabled, closing AutoCAD, then reopening the file, the setting is reverted to enabled with 15 minute intervals. 

The setting also reverts when a new/other drawing is opened in the same AutoCAD window.

[Alfred.NESWADBA · Accepted solution]

Hi,

>> After saving a drawing with autosave disabled, closing

>> AutoCAD, then reopening the file, the setting is reverted

Well, 2 possibilities, Registry or added tool like ACAD.LSP

In case of registry you need your IT (network admin)

In case of tool you need to ask the guy who is responsible for AutoCAD profiles. It can be a line in file ACAD.LSP, it could also be an app loaded into AutoCAD.

- alfred -

[Anonymous]

Ended up being a LISP command enforcing autosave. Thanks for the input

[RobDraw]

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@Anonymous wrote:

Autosaving is highly disruptive to our work as saving takes a long time. Accordingly we've tried a few things:

- Increasing the autosave interval

- Disabling automatic save

- Disabling "create backup copy with each save"

These steps resolve the issue temporarily but when the drawing is reopened autosave is re-enabled and the interval is reset to 15 minutes. Is there any way to permanently disable autosave?

Thanks.

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Do you know why it takes so long to save your drawings? That's usually an indication that there is a problem. Disabling autosave is only treating the symptom, not solving the actual problem.

[Anonymous]

Agree with your statement. The short answer is no, we do not know what causes long save times. It seems to be related to xrefs. 

[allanthebruce]

Any chance you can tell mw what the lisp looks like or where its placed?

we are having this issue and need to find but have alot of them.... thanks

Allan

[cadffm]

Did you start Acad in /safemode and the issue gone in this safemode session?

[allanthebruce]

I found this lisp about 30m ago in the folder of lisp's and removed it, it was the guilty one:

Thanks for the message. (soooooo much lagging now gone!!!)

(vl-load-com)
(if (null *autosave-reactor*)
(setq *autosave-reactor*
(vlr-command-reactor "autosave"
'(
(:vlr-commandended . autosave)
(:vlr-commandcancelled . autosave)
(:vlr-commandfailed . autosave)
)
)
)
)
(setq *autosave-acdoc* (vla-get-activedocument (vlax-get-acad-object))
*autosave-count* 0
)
(defun autosave ( obj arg )
(if (and (zerop (rem (setq *autosave-count* (1+ *autosave-count*)) 20))
(= 1 (getvar 'dwgtitled))
)
(vla-save *autosave-acdoc*)
)
(princ)
)
(princ)