Lost drawing in viewport

[Anonymous]

Hi,

I'm a first year student taking an AutoCAD class, I opened in paper space layout 2 from model space my drawing and inserted about 5 viewports to arrange my drawings, but when I saved it the next day I couldn't find my other drawings, just the one in the viewport I was working on.  I deleted some of my drawings because the viewports had all of my drawings on all of them so I deleted some and left them in the viewport that I wanted, but lost those drawings.  Is there a way to restore or get those drawings back?  They were all saved on my thumb drive, backup file does not work.

[john.uhden]

Your first problem is your lack of creating BAK files.

Your second problem is your decision to throw away earlier work.  You never know when you might need it until it's no longer there.

Here are some settings you should keep...

ISAVEBAK 1
SAVEFILEPATH "C:\AutoSave\" <or any place that's safe>
SAVETIME 10

Check your recycling bin  BEFORE YOU DO A DISK CLEANUP!

Keep your files on your hard drive and use your thumb drive to back them up regularly.

Back when I had real work to do, I used a program called Second Copy.

  It's cheap and easy.  I had two PCs networked so it copied from one to the other, but today you can get terabyte USB storage devices for as little as $100.

[Anonymous]

Hi John.uhden,
I tried all the suggestions, took it to a Microsoft representative and my teacher said to forget it, it takes too long to redo the blueprint, so he'll grade me on what he last saw for my drawing. My Bak files were always corrupted, it never opened, I have a new computer so maybe the programs that were installed weren't done correctly. I didn't delete all the drawings from the file but only those that didn't belong in the viewport. I last saw the blueprint on my layout tab at home so I assumed it was there somewhere. I still want to find it but don't have too much time to look for it. Thank you everyone so much for your help.

[john.uhden]

I am pretty sure you have to rename *.BAK to *. DWG in order to open it in
AutoCAD, so they might not really be corrupted. One other setting I should
have mentioned...

ISAVEPERCENT 0