How to set or adjust autosave in Autocad 2011

[paulpatrick]

Hi new to Autocad 2011 with it as part of Inventor. Need to set the machine to autosave as the area is subject to power cuts, along with My computer turning itself off for some reason I am unaware of.
How do Iadjust the time on it.. I have turned it on with the TIME command but I dont know what to use to adjust the interval!

 

[rollupswx]

Turn off autosave - you should be saving.

 

[paulpatrick]

why turn it off?..power cut or something and all the work gets wasted!

 

[paulpatrick]

The command I was looking for was SAVETIME it sets the computer to save you drawing progress to what ever time interval you wish. Every time you save yourself the interval resets. The TIME command allows you to see if its turned on or not or to reset it.

 

[rollupswx]

Turn it off. It is your responsibility to save. The power users I know all turn it off.

 

[mcgyvr]

Paulpatrick get a UPS too.

 

[paulpatrick]

UPS as in?

 

[rollupswx]

UPS - Uninterrupted Power Supply one of the worst things that can happen is autosave is in the process of saving when your power goes out. Not only do you not get a save up to current work, but autosave could actually corrupt your file leaving you with nothing.

 

[rollupswx]

http://www.cadtutor.net/forum/showthread.php?t=47612

Check out what rkmcswain has to say about autosave (I think he was a AU Top DAUG winner.)

 

[cfee]

Ok.
1. Buy a UPS, even if you DON'T have frequent power interruptions where you work. Brownouts are silent killers, that can do more harm than power outages. Invisible spikes and troughs, are just as bad. If the "factory" or "autoshop" next door uses large electrical motors, you may never notice the brownouats or troughs. Buy a UPS, to condition your operating power, and THEN if you DO have frequent power losses, you're that much farther ahead.
2. Set your AUTOSAVE feature to some time YOU feel comfortable with. For my newer users I'll have them set to every 10 minutes or so. Some of my remote users have multiple power issues in a day, they sometimes set to even more frequent than that !

Here's how: RIGHT-CLICK in the command prompt area, choose "Options" from your popup menu & choose the "Open and Save" tab. Look halfway down the left side. Set it to any minutes between saves you want. As you gain experience, you MAY back off on this, or you may not. If you have REALLY HUGE files, say 100-250Mb or larger, you may want to save a little less frequently, but if you're using a modern computer with reasonable specs, even that shouldn't be an issue. To find an AutoSAVED file, I think you'll do a search for "SV$" files, and rename the file extension from SV$ to DWG. Its a drawing again. This is if you don't have a BAK file to fall back on, which you may not if you haven't developed a rhythm for your manual saves yet. We all do at some point; you will too !

Good luck !

 

[amb2002]

Personally, I would never turn off the autosave feature - if nothing else it is a reminder to do a manual save.

I recommend creating a specific folder for your autosaves, as opposed to a temp folder that is being used by many programs. I set my log file, temp drawing file, temp external ref file paths to the same location.

Myself, I have the automatic save set to 5 minutes, the incremental save percentage set to zero, and the create backup copy option checked. Maybe it's magic, but I end up with several incrementally named bak files in addition to the sv$ files. I primarily use Civil 3D and even with a good manual save routine, I've unfortunately needed the incremental bak files to save me from unstable drawing issues.