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en respuesta a: Anonymous

AutoCAD's autosave tool will create BAK files on its own as you miss your save intervals, in addition to the temp-until-you-crash SV$. You do not get to control the details of how autosaves works in autocad, you only get to set the frequency or turn it off as an end user.

 

I peaked into my autosave folder and I see double-BAK files spread out in there for a few files I've had open this week, the only difference is the time-stamp-in-the-name. In a couple of instances I had up to 8 bak files for one file from last week, one I had open in a second window of AutoCAD all morning that I was stealing blocks from for a project.

 

I'm curious why you seem to actively rely on autosave's actions (SV$ and BAK files) for so much, and why you actively worry about deleting these autosave files almost as soon as you close a drawing you were in.

 

So back to my question: are you running out of disk space? If not, delete autosave files once or twice a year if and when you think about it and never before then.

 

If this is just a personal obsession though (forgive me, that is not meant as an insult, I just cannot find other words to explain what I mean) you are fighting a pointless battle over something you cannot control. Reset your autosave folder to  location you cannot easily view, access or monitor instantly and try to refocus on things you do control, like manually saving often and frequently.

 

Good luck.