sv$ files! HELP!

[rkmcswain]

I can't imagine how many autosave files are going to pile up in that folder.

 

Note. I do NOT use the tip I posted there. I only wrote that because I see so many people asking how to do it and I only wanted to write it once.

 

In fact, I don't even have autosave enabled. QS after every few commands has never let me down...

[ReMark]

A simple batch file could delete the contents of the folder. It could be run at start-up each morning or placed on the Desktop and run at will.

 

Back when a 5MB hard drive was considered huge I would agree with your sentiment. But in these days of 500GB, 750GB and 1.5TB hard drives is there really a need to worry? Let the maid (batch file) take out the trash. LOL

[Cad64]

A simple batch file could delete the contents of the folder. It could be run at start-up each morning or placed on the Desktop and run at will.

 

Back when a 5MB hard drive was considered huge I would agree with your sentiment. But in these days of 500GB, 750GB and 1.5TB hard drives is there really a need to worry? Let the maid (batch file) take out the trash. LOL

 

I'm just saying, if you don't monitor it and do some sort of regular housekeeping, you will end up with a lot of useless autosave files in that folder.

 

But as Mcswain said, Save often and there's no need for any of this. I can't imagine going 5 hours without a save?

[ReMark]

If I go 15 minutes without a save I break into a cold sweat.

[ScribbleJ]

Ctrl+S is fast and friendly. I save about every other time I blink. If I am doing something during one of those save blinks then I save at the next available blink.

[alanjt]

In fact, I don't even have autosave enabled. QS after every few commands has never let me down...

After we switched to Civil 3D and had a few big projects, I turned mine off.

[MikeScott]

I'm loving that ctrl-S method.. I had forgotten about that. thanks for the tip!

[ScribbleJ]

I'm loving that ctrl-S method.. I had forgotten about that. thanks for the tip!

 

Awesome! Glad to help jog some memories. At least one confirmed so far anyway. I look for all the shortcuts I can. My left hands muscle memory has Ctrl+S burned into it so much that it sometimes does it involuntarily. I hate nothing more in the electronic world than to lose work even if it is a small amount. Work lost is money lost. Having had my own business at one point during my CAD career I know this all too well.

[MikeScott]

Heh, I'm considering turning it into a "drinking game".. where whenever I switch to, or from modelspace, I have to hit it.

 

Hmm.. or maybe modify a common command button or two.. so it does it on it's own. Though that can get scary, especially if I'm in the process of reusing an old file as a template and accidentally save over the old file. I'll have to think about that one.

[Cad64]

Ctrl+S is the default key combination, but it requires me to move my left hand off of my home keys and often times I have to look down in order to hit the correct keys. That's why I created the shortcut SV in my pgp file. This makes it almost effortless to save. My hand is already in the correct position to hit S and V and Spacebar and my eyes never have to leave the screen.

[MotoGirl]

sorry u lost your work. i have done it before and i still never learn to save all the time. or i'm retarded and save one file over the top of another.

 

and you can never have too many backups is the way i see it so... if you do the permenant save of your sv$ files to a c:\autosave folder but are also lazy like me and don't like to remember to delete them everyday.

 

i came up with this....

 

i created a folder c:\autosave

in this folder i created a subfolder "cadfiles"(just to keep things organized and two files:

c:\autosave\autosavedel.bat

c:\Autosave\autosavedel.vbs

 

c:\autosave\autosavedel.vbs

iDaysOld = 1 
strPath = "C:\AUTOSAVE\Cadfiles" 

Set objFSO = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")  
Set objFolder = objFSO.GetFolder(strPath)  
Set colSubfolders = objFolder.Subfolders  
Set colFiles = objFolder.Files  

For Each objFile in colFiles  
  If objFile.DateLastModified < (Date() - iDaysOld) Then   
      objFile.Delete  
  End If  
Next  


For Each objSubfolder in colSubfolders  
  Set colFiles = objSubfolder.Files  
  For Each objFile in colFiles  
      If objFile.DateLastModified < (Date() - iDaysOld) Then  
          objFile.Delete  
      End If  
  Next  
Next 

 

and just to give credit where it's due... i got this basic code from

http://www.mssqltips.com/tip.asp?tip=1324

[alanjt]

Perhaps a reactor...