Drawing Recover

Good Morning:

I have a corrupted DWG. I try to recover it and the computer locks up in the Drawing Recover window. The following info. is displayed.

DRAWING RECOVER

DRAWING LOG

ERROR 53 READING HANDLE TABLE. RECONSTRUCTED FROM OBJECTS.

RECONSTRUCTING HANDLE TABLE FROM OBJECTS.

ANy suggestions????

Marc, welcome to the forums.

This same or similar post was in the forums, I believe yesterday.

Perhaps you want to post the *.dwg file and see if the FFM (Friendly Forum Members) can help you recover from your misery?

Have you tried running an audit on it? Also, I've found that renaming a .bak file to a .dwg helps when a drawing file is corrupted.

I know.....Unfortunately a person in our office in haste erased the .bak

I know.....Unfortunately a person in our office in haste erased the .bak

That really stinks! Unfortunately I really don't have any another suggestions.

How do I do an audit on a dwg if I can't open it? When I right click on the corrupted file I do not have an audit option. Under FILE pull down whith no dwgt open I do not have the iption to Audit. I have the recover option which is not helping at the moment.

How do I do an audit on a dwg if I can't open it? When I right click on the corrupted file I do not have an audit option. Under FILE pull down whith no dwgt open I do not have the iption to Audit. I have the recover option which is not helping at the moment.

You can only do it in an open drawing.

You can only do it in an open drawing.

If it's on a network, could you try to recover a recent back up?

The file is 4503KB bigger than the max post size of 250KB

I worked on the dwg at home over the weekend. It looks, at the moment, a hope I may have is the auto back up sv$ on the computer at home. I saved the drawing to a thumb drive and when I got to the office this morning I could not open it. Other dwg's on the drive were okay.

If you worked on it at home then you should have the .bak file there. The sv$ file is only saved if Autocad crashes. If you closed Autocad successfully then the sv$ file was automatically deleted.

I was able to Recover a corrupt file yesterday using Autocad2007, but when I tried on 2005 it was unable to do anything. It might be worth your while to download the 2009 trial version and use that to run a Recover on the file. It might be able to repair the file.

You can also use Dwg TrueView to attempt to recover drawings that you can not otherwise open.

I worked on the dwg at home over the weekend. It looks, at the moment, a hope I may have is the auto back up sv$ on the computer at home. I saved the drawing to a thumb drive and when I got to the office this morning I could not open it. Other dwg's on the drive were okay.

Let us know if you still have the file at home, fingers crossed.

Big files you might "purge", makes the file(s) smaller.

Thanks.......It worked!! A little cut and paste from 09 to 04.....ALOT better than a redraw!!!!

Another question.....Why is there an auto save sv$ if when you close cad it deletes this file......Mine at home was 0kb? I have it set for 10 min. but it looks as though this is not a "safe" bet on getting a dwg back. The "safe" bet is the .bak. If you do not delete it.

Thank you very much again for the tip on the 09 and recovering the dwg that way.

the sv$ file's should delete upon closing automatically PROVIDED AutoCAD closed down properly.

They are a fail-safe should the program crash, so that when you restart it you can use that file to run a recovery instead of (Hopefully) losing all your work.

For absolute safety now I've gotten into the habit of doin a quick save every 5 to 10 minutes.er

Another way to get around this might be to kindly ask someone who has Map 3D loaded to throw a query at the file to recover the data. This might be the best option after the '09 trial runs out or you upgrade to '09 and have a file get whacked in there.

I know your problem is solved. but wnated to post another possible solutions which works in some cases. open a blank drawing & bring in the corrupted drawing using insert command & save.

this way atleast you will get your model space data back