sv$ files! HELP!

The autosave file. OK

I know for a fact that it has saved about 5 of them today.

When I go to the location where they are. The last most current one in the folder is from 3 days ago. I dont get it! where are the ones from today!

I just lost 5 hours of work! I thought I was closing the block editor and it asked to save, I said NO, and the drawing closes, because they changed it up on 2009 and the close block editor is on a PANEL!

why do they have to change a good thing.

From the AutoDesk website:

SV$ files are backup files created automatically by the Autosave feature. If AutoCAD crashes during a session, you can rename these files (by changing the .sv$ file extension to .dwg) to recover the data contained in the drawing at the time of the last Autosave. If AutoCAD closes without issue, these files are deleted.

And that's why there were no SV$ files with today's date.

no, I know right where it goes, I just dont understand why its got the one from monday.

doesnt make sense

I changed my answer. Go back and reread.

I just lost 5 hours of work! ...

How does someone go for 5 hours without saving? Well now you know - save often.

Sounds like you (the OP) also disabled creating a backup (bak) file with each save. I've always enabled the option. There are others who never have.

Do I sense a debate coming on shortly?

I am usually good at saving guys, don't rub it in.

I never disabled any backup. It only makes that when you save, I didn't save OK. Simply thought I was closing block editor and hit NO.

that simple.

anyways, thanks for making me feel worse. Good day.

From the AutoDesk website:

 

If AutoCAD closes without issue, these files are deleted.

 

And that's why there were no SV$ files with today's date.

Weird.. is that something that changed? or am I getting bad closings like 5 times a day?

I am usually good at saving guys, don't rub it in.

 

Everyone get's burned by this thing now and then. By being sort of aggressive in the reminder department, they're helping to make the lesson "stick". The more it "sticks" the more likely you are to take suitable precautions, and never have to deal with this again. We've all been there, and it helps remind US as well.

You're upset, so ReMark's harmless comment seemed like an attack, but realistically, he was trying to help you understand the position you're in and how to minimize the possibility of it happening again.

Don't take this stuff personally, we've all been there, and we all know it sucks, but unfortunately there's not much that can be done now.

Thanks for the warning on the Block editor though.. I used to run into similar problems when I typed "end" to use the endpoint object snap, and it used to shutdown autocad if you had an error and accidentally wrote it without being in the LINE command.

Just speculating Tim. No offense meant.

Yes, I too fell victim to the END command thinking it would end the command and not the drawing session. Guilty as charged.

...anyways, thanks for making me feel worse. Good day.

I think everyone who does this stuff long enough remembers the day they really learned to save often.

Would have been about 1995 when I learned the lesson. Worked at least 8 hrs on a circuit board design and then closed the program. I was so used to hitting that annoying "Do you want to save" as an automatic reflex, but the millisecond I selected no I realized I had not saved all day. I tried to chase down the electrons and let them know I had one last thing for them to do - but I couldn't catch up.

These days I remind my students to save so often that they made up t-shirts that say on the front, "Did something right?" and on the back "Save It" with an image of a 3.5 disk.

I have a sticker on my monitor that says:

Jesus saves...so should you.

Purge, Audit, Regenall and SAVE.

My most used commands!

The 5th item on my list, outside of AutoCAD?

BACKUP

My most used commands: Oops, Undo, Cancel, and Save!

My fifth most used one is HELP!

Sounds like you got it figured out Timzilla...

If you want to know more about autosave, take a look at:

http://cadpanacea.com/autosave

My most used commands: Oops, Undo, Cancel, and Save!

 

My fifth most used one is HELP!

My fix hasn't ended up too often with me , boo hoo, boo hoo.

When I backup, the backups are incremental, ahhhhhhhhh, saves time. I seldom do a full system backup unless I made changes. The backups are to two workstations, two Thinkpad™ laptops, and one server.

In the field? I've been known to email myself, notes, drawings, whatever I need to be in safe keeping out of harms way.

Good one rkm. I especially like the Tip at the end:

"If you want to RETAIN all autosave files regardless of whether you crash or not. Set up a directory with WRITE rights, but without DELETE rights. Use this as your SAVEFILEPATH."

Thanks.

its ok fella's, I wasn't offended. lol, i was typing that in a playful way.

thanks for the pep talk.

If you want to RETAIN all autosave files regardless of whether you crash or not. Set up a directory with WRITE rights, but without DELETE rights. Use this as your SAVEFILEPATH. The autosave files will get written to this directory, but will not be deleted. Be sure to log in as a user with delete rights ever so often and clean out this directory. Also, always make sure ISAVEPERCENT is set to zero (0).

Moral of the story: QSAVE OFTEN

so how do I do it, this tells me nothing!

"so how do I do it, this tells me nothing!"

Let's try to remain clam shall we?

A directory is the same as a folder.

I would create a folder in the root drive of your computer such as:

C:\AutoSave

This can be done by opening Windows Explorer and clicking on File > New > Folder. Once the folder is created its Properties can be changed by right-clicking on the folder itself and selecting Properties.

In AutoCAD you will have to change the path under Tools > Options > Files > Automatic Save File Location to (using our example) C:\AutoSave. Once done click on the Apply & Close button.

The system variable ISAVEPERCENT can be accessed via AutoCAD's command line. I'm pretty sure the default setting is "0" if I'm not mistaken but it wouldn't hurt to verify it.

I can't imagine how many autosave files are going to pile up in that folder. You will have to stay on top of it and clean house on a regular basis, otherwise you will end up with a lot of used space on your hard disk.

Just get into the habit of saving. I save about 10 to 15 times every hour. It's just built into my workflow. It's something I learned early on. I put an alias in my pgp file of SV for QSAVE. Makes it real easy to Save.