Drawing Boots Me on Open - Lite2000

[bigmikecad]

I've been having this problem with this set of drawings i'm working. when i open it the drawing will start to load but then boot me out half way thru and shut down CAD with no error messages or pop-up. they drawing cannot be recovered and will boot out after recovery is done running. so then i have to re-name a backup or autosave to get the drawing again, losing sometimes lots of work. it does it to multiple drawings in this set, but not all the time. i can get in and out of a drawing a dozen times with no problem, then all the sudden when i go to open it again does the same thing. only in this job does it happen. thought maybe it was a virus but a scan picked up nothing. it happens to other people also, not just my computer, but it seems only after i've opened a drawing. has anyone ever had this problem before?

 

[JStephen]

As a continuing problem, I'd try contacting AutoCAD for help.

As a one-time thing- a coworker had this happen. He was able to insert the drawing into another drawing as a block or xref (I forget which) and then explode it. Seems like he lost some block definitions or something of the sort, but salvaged most of his work.

For a good while, I used a computer that would just crash about once a day. I learned to hit that save button about every 5 minutes. You may need to do the same thing, or save it as 2 different drawings alternating however frequently you think of it.

You might try reloading AutoCAD, as well.

 

[paddymac]

Autocad 2000 used to have a problem where if you used the Lengthen command, it would randomly crash when you are working on that drawing. It wouldn't crash when using the Lengthen command but at any other time later on. Not sure if it's the same in LT2000 but I'd imagine it is.
As JStephen says above, insert the drawing into a blank drawing and work off of that. And don't use the Lengthen command.