AutoCAD closes instantly when clicking twice on the Large A (top left corner)

[leslie.lees]

I've noticed in the last few versions of AutoCAD that the application closes without warning if I click on the big 'A' twice too fast. Sometimes there is a pause when you click it once, and doubt wether I actually clicked successfully, so do it again, quite quickly. If it's too quickly and the first WAS successful the second click (& I haven't done a Ctrl+S recently) causes me to lose my recent work. Anyone else get this?

Regards

Les.

[steven-g · Accepted solution]

It's supposed too, that's standard windows behavior for most programs.

[pendean]

You shouldn't lose any work, it always prompts you to save first. Are you perhaps just crashing the program?

What version of AutoCAD is this? only other posts I see for crashes like this go back to 2009 versions. What is your Windows OS as well?

In the meantime... Use other locations or methods to access the content you need found under the big-A box.

[WarrenGeissler]

You can hold the ALT key for a second or two to bring up keyboard activation shortcuts (keytips) which will show you the one for the Application Menu. That's just another way to get there. You can read about this >>HERE<<

[leslie.lees]

@Anonymous-g Really, such as? Minimise maybe, not just close surely....I'll be looking from now on.

@pendean
Yes, closing without warning is pretty much a crash. I wouldn't say "it causes me to lose my recent work" if it didn't! Have you tried it?

Don't think it's my system, although I've been wrong before....
 AutoCAD LT 2018.1.2
   Operating System: Windows 7 Professional 64-bit (6.1, Build 7601) Service Pack 1
          Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-7700K CPU @ 4.20GHz (8 CPUs), ~4.2GHz
             Memory: 32768MB RAM DDR4
    DirectX Version: DirectX 11
Card name: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6GB
      Drive: C:
 Free Space: 334.5 GB SSD
Total Space: 488.1 GB SSD


@Anonymous.giessler Sorry mate, if it takes a couple of seconds I won't be employing that method. I'm not actually trying to get anywhere. It's an observation, and I am asking you guys if you also get it.

I've learnt to deal with it by Ctrl+S very often, but I can see it being a problem for other people that click the 'A' icon too fast.

[leslie.lees]

Update:

 Thanks steve-g, 'many' programs do infact close on a fast double click on the top left icon, I've not noticed that before. A single click brings up the menu, and at the bottom is 'close' so it seems 'most' programs seem to default to the last item in the list. None of them give a warning including ACAD.

😄

[pendean]

No crash here no matter how many times I double-click on the big red A in AutOCAD, LT and ACA 2018. Neither in any 2017 versions of the three software.

So first you have to try and fix the problem by finding out what is the cause of the crash: Windows event log offer up anything?

What if you reisntalled LT2018 without the 1.2 update?

Have you reached out to your subscription Autodesk help yet https://autodesk.secure.force.com/Customer/apex/Case_CustomerPortalLandingPage

[leslie.lees]

Lol, I don't have all day to mess about with reinstalling over this issue, and as steven-g says, it is a standard Windows operation.Even windows that don't have an icon still display the menu if you click in that area, and also close when you double click (fast).. although some DO actually give the option to save.

Maybe you're not clicking fast enough.

[kyled]

this can be and has been the biggest pain in my ass. I also do believe that it sometimes will close without saving and lose work if multiple file tabs are open.

this should be removed as a function. who uses it.

[pendean]

A less sensitive double-click mouse action (or new mouse) may help a lot too.

[kyled]

It's a bogus feature. Useless

[leslie.lees]

If you use your mouse at a snails pace, you'll never notice it. But if you've wound up you machine like any production engineer would, you'll have every Windows program closing without warning on a double click, many other programs including ACAD does too.  Whether it works like that when the mouse is set to double click I don't know. I can't be bothered to try it, nor will I ever use it. I can't understand why people double click all day!! or the black screen...LMAO

[gotphish001]

I did this a few times when I first started using autocad. It was super annoying. After a half dozen times of doing it by mistake, I just learned to not spam click the "A". I just click it once and let the menu open as I learned my lesson. I also just tested it and it always asks me to save when I fast click the "A". I tried with 1,2,3,4, and 10 tabs open.  

[kyled]

[Anonymous]

I beg to differ with you on that. It did not prompt me when it shutdown all 20 drawings I was working on. It just shutdown, no warning what so ever. I'm not impressed with this feature.

[Anonymous]

I lost everything recently and it took me quite a while to figure out what kicked me out in the first place. Our network was slower than normal and it was not responding as expected, did add to the problem. So when I clicked on the A, I did not get the open response so I clicked on it again - hence losing everything. BTW - This was with 2021 AutoCAD Electrical.

[pendean]

@Anonymous you are responding to a post from 2018 about someone else' experience, not necessarily yours. Glad you identified the problem with a slow network at your end.

Double-clicking the topmost left icon to close a program is a WindowsOS feature present in all programs (that still have them anyway, a bad OS idea IMHO), and unsaved files open (in AutoCAD and others) have always prompted all of our users to save before going away.