What does the asterisk indicate at the drawing name?

[tor3B3UK]

Why is this asterisk in the name of the drawing? Please see below

Also, I try 'closing' out one of the drawings and I get an error message that says: "Command _CLOSE is not available under SDI mode."

SDI is set = 1... How am I supposed to negotiate between drawings? 

[user181]

Hi @tor3B3UK,  the asterisk after the drawing name means changes have been made since it was last saved.  SDI = 1 turns on the single drawing interface. If you are opening multiple drawings you want SDI = 0 

[tor3B3UK]

... means changes have been made since it was last saved.  

The asterisk appears when first opening up a drawing before any edits have been made.  

[user181]

Thats how it works. Once you save it will go away but all you have to do is pan or zoom and it will come back. 

[tor3B3UK]

Is there any point to this 'feature' except to stymie productivity? 

[cadffm]

stymie productivity? 
Rofl. How can this stymie your productivity? 
If it isn't a profit for you to see if a file state is saved or not, ok.

Or do you mean that pan or zoom etc. set your file state to non-saved?
Easy answer, the current view is part of your stored data in your file.
If you have change the view, you changed the content.

[tor3B3UK]

The wasted time is in not being able to negotiate between two drawings (SDI = 1 not working) and having to 'fix' all the problems that keep coming up over and over again due to this finicky program that is extremely unstable. I have gotten *dozens* of FATAL ERRORS over the last week from things that are completely out of my control. AutoCAD is a time-sink and it makes me very frustrated that it is so prone to problems despite paying tens-of-thousands of dollars for it. the asterisk is a brand-new 'thing' that just showed up this morning that I had no idea what it meant. Now you say it really doesn't 'do' anything except remind you that the drawing isn't 'saved'. Is this a 'feature' that just started this morning? 

[pendean]

You seem to be talking about way more than a simply asterisk in a tab: it has been around for ever, did you just move to a new version from a very old version?

Do you need to follow trough with one of your other posts in this forum?

What is your AutoCAD/LT version?
What is your Windows version?

[tor3B3UK]

Okay, sorry. It appears CAD has changed quite a bit with this forced SDI=0 thing that's new for me since the 2018 version.  CAD is doing their customer base a great disservice by changing many core features without legacy options.  

[cadffm]

As it has been said, this change has arisen from necessity because there are problems that could not be solved.
I tried using SDI on Win8.1 and have no problems (only because of some User questions i tried that) Maybe there is still an update? I don't no.
I am glad that SDI still existed in 2000-2018 😉
With MDI in 2000(?) and removing the documentation of SDI few years ago, it was ever possible that Adesk removes this old feature in the future.

[pendean]

See your other duplicate posts.

[tor3B3UK]

The asterisk is a brand new 'feature' that didn't occur on any drawing I have ever worked on in AutoCAD which creped up at random about a week ago right after I asked about docking my command line when someone had me do something to my system that radically changed its appearance by messing with the CUI which is apparently an *irreversible* option.  This question is not related to any other question I've asked. 

[pendean]

See your other duplicate posts, all of these same questions have been answered over and over again.