Recovery

[nyaromulo]

Hello all

I had a problem of system failure. (Just got kick off a drawing)

I looked in the folder where my file, ‘test’ is saved and I found that ‘test.dwg’ changes did not take place or saved. However the program created an additional file called “test_recovery.dwg”

test_recovery.dwg only have 6KB, but the original file “text.dwg” have 692KB. I believe something is wrong with test_recovery.dwg for only having 6KB. In addition I can’t really open it no matter what I do! I used ‘drawingrecovery’ on the command line. Drawingrecovery manager appears, but with no back up file. I only see “no backup information” in the Drawingrecovery manager….that is all I get.

Also I used “recover”, “recoverall” and the result comes “unable to recover drawing file”.

Do any of you know any other way to resolve this problem?

[rustysilo]

This is a known bug. You can check your .bak and autosave (*.sv$) files. If those don't have the info you need then you'll have to do the work again.

 

See this thread for a discussion on the subject.

[hotrodz0321]

you wont be able to open the "...recover" file so you'll have to find your autosave or .bak file and see if they are more usefull

[nyaromulo]

when you say "find autosave" is this kind of a dwg file, if so where could it be saved?

 

I looked under my file and i only have the original file...not even a back up, even though I set my preferences for the drawing to be saved every 10 minutes with each backup file.

[hotrodz0321]

when you say "find autosave" is this kind of a dwg file, if so where could it be saved?

 

I looked under my file and i only have the original file...not even a back up, even though I set my preferences for the drawing to be saved every 10 minutes with each backup file.

 

 

type OPTIONS..go to the file tab...expand "automatic file save location" and thats where you can find it at

[rustysilo]

It is typically saved in a temp directory and has an .sv$ extension. To see where yours is go to options > files tab and expand the Automatic Save File Location.

[rustysilo]

Aw bummer. You beat me to it.

[rustysilo]

From the help file:

 

If you turn the automatic save option on, your drawing is saved at specified time intervals. By default, files saved automatically are temporarily assigned the name filename_a_b_nnnn.sv$.

• Filename is the current drawing name.
  
• a is the number of open instances of the same drawing file in the same work session.
  
• b is the number of open instances of the same drawing in different work sessions.
  
• nnnn is a random number.

These temporary files are automatically deleted when a drawing closes normally. In the event of a program failure or a power failure, these files are not deleted.

To recover a previous version of your drawing from the automatically saved file, rename the file using a .dwg extension in place of the .sv$ extension before you close the program.

[nyaromulo]

thanks you guys i found it!

[rustysilo]

Good deal. Now I would recommend clicking the link I provided in my earlier post as it has some code to create an alternate save toolbar button that will save a duplicate .dwg everytime you click it. This way if your backup and recovery fails you will at least have that additional backup file.

 

It is not a necessity when your autosave is on, but it is extra insurance.