AUTO-SAVE in 2006

[cfee]

We've just today migrated to 2006 in our office.
One of the guys opened a drawing from a client, and after about an hour of close-deadline work, the drawing crashed, crashing the session. Don't you know it- the boss walked up NOT immediately, but just 5 minutes later, as he realized he couldn't rename the autosave file to dwg, and the work was lost. Imagine his embarrassment as he had to tell the boss he didn't know what to do! I was asked to help, but I couldn't find a way to get the operating system to recognize the rename to ".DWG". In previous versions, we just rename "*.sv$" (*.$$$" now?) to"*.dwg" and went on about our business. I guess we aren't aware of the "improvement" involved in this situation.

Any suggestions?
I've already mentioned to the boss that we need our salesman to schedule a 1-2 hr(+) "orientation" session, but we need to fix this one in the mean time.

Tks-

C. Fee

 

[borgunit]

I am not sure of the exact issue, but when you say getting the OS to to recognize the the rename. Make sure the folder settings in Explorer show Known Extensions. You might be ranaming the file to somefile.ac$ to somefile.dwg.ac$ if the file extension is not seen when browsing.

"Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects." — Will Rogers

 

[IFRs]

Isn't the sv$ file a temporary one that goes away when the drawing is closed or Autocad quits? Why couldn't he rename it? Was it there? He should have been able to copy it and then rename it.

 

[cfee]

Thanks guys.

borgunit-
Folder settings to recognize known file extensions already set. Was viewing what appeared to be entire file name WITH extension, before renaming. Renaming had no effect on file associativity (.sv$ to.dwg).

ifrs-
No, autoCAD doesn't delete the .sv$ when exiting (at least ours isn't set up to do so, and I've never had a problem finding the .sv$ file before, either). I also tried copying it to the root directory of my local C: drive and renameing, but no luck.

Anyway-
We've recovered from numerous ACAD crashes (always on the machines with the older ATI video, by the way, even though my home PC with ATI video is stable as a rock...) by finding and renaming the *.sv$ file to *.deg, and moving on...

Also, it looked like the save file extension in our 2006 was set to "*.$$$". Any thoughts?

Thanks all-

C. Fee

 

[TerryScan]

cfee:

Autosave in 2006 works as it always has. It does NOT save to .$$$ extension. It saves to .sv$, so I am not surprised that trying to open the $$$ does not work.

One difference may be WHERE the autosave files are located. At one time they were saved to \windows\temp. I believe they now get saved to the temp folder in your profile, such as:

C:\Documents and Settings\username\Local Settings\Temp

I find it a pain to navigate to here, so I create an autosave directory (c:\autosave) and change the settings to point there.

The path on your machine can be found on the FILES tab of your OPTIONS dialog under "Automatic Save File Location".

 

[cfee]

Terryscan-
I thought so too, but there was no *.sv$ in the save directory on his machine, and the only file in the default save directory that returned "autocad save file" as the file type was the $$$. We have since looked for the sv$ file, and have found it, but it seems to be a version of the drawing left over from when we were editing using v2002.
As to navigating, I create an Icon on my desktop that automatically takes me to the AutoCAD standard default location, and thus don't have to change and manage a different location than the default. I set one up on his system, but he still doesn't get any value out of the automatic saves for the reasons mentioned above, so I've modified a couple of his frequently used commands to include a q-save, as a temporary workaround. We'll see.
Tks-
C.Fee