*ECCAD* typed them thar words:
| Now, let me see. I was reading this one...long and drawn out.
| No (solutions) as of yet. So,
Luis came up with one that is working rather well, actually. Nice little
LSP that backs up any autsave made and prevent duplicate instances of thew
same backup even.
| Why not tackle the (original) problem. AutoCAD Crashed.
I tried, but that is going to be a long drawn out task as I cannot get it to
happen. It hasn't happened in the last 2 years and has only happened to me
a few times in the last 8 years I have been cadding.
| Why ? Was it Windows / Temp Swap area too small ?
That was one thing I was wondering since I was zooming and panning (eating
up a lot of memory). I didn't have any other programs open, though so I am
kind of ruling that out right now. It could be a graphics card issue,
though. I would believe that more if I was doing some 3D, but this is a 2D
<600k file I was working on. Honestly I could not accuse lack or memory as
the culprit.
| Was it a 'glitch' / minor power-down ?
No power surges or anything of the like, so my battery back up claims.
| For my advise (and don't even THINK of bad-lipping me), I would go
| back to using the Qsave.....been solid for years.
No doubt, but I would like to solve the problem at hand. If qsave isn't
used for any reason and there is no default backup of the file you were
working on when AutoCAD crashes, what do you do? Recommending using qsave
does not solve that problem, now does it? I was hoping for a solution,
which the suggestions of using a permissioned folder or writing a backup
script provide the insight for. Now we just need to make it work, which is
what Luis was getting very good at doing.
| And, tackle the real problem.
Are you implying that human error is the real problem? In that case give it
a whirl. Man has been trying to solve that one since the dawn of man.
I would rather formulate a failsafe to help resolve the problems of human
error....
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Dr. After
