File Problem

[hrsnblm]

I have a file I have spent many hours working on that all of a sudden will not open for use. It will open about 99% and then freeze up. The application and the file were closed normally. The most recent back-up file (for some unknown reason) was much earlier than when the file was closed, thus missing some time consuming work (note: auto-save is set to 10 minutes).

Is it possible to have someone look at this file and see if there is some sort of "fix" that will allow it to finish opening? I have had a fairly experienced Autocad user take a look at it, but it is outside of his expertise.

Appreciate any and all answers.

[alanjt]

Try partial open or xref/insert it into another drawing.

[hrsnblm]

Try both and nothing has worked so far.

[JohnM]

did you try the recover utility?
file menu>drawing utilities>recover

post the drawing

[hrsnblm]

Tried posting it but it is too large (~1.5M). Is there another way?

[JohnM]

did you try recover?
email it to me jmichael@jmhsoftware.com

[hrsnblm]

No, it did not work either. I would still like to get it figured out, but I have spent my time getting back to where I was with an earlier version. So, if you would still like to pursue this I am game, but I am out of the woods for now.

Just let me know what to do, or let it die. Thank you.

[JohnM]

if your up and running let it be
if a drawing is getting too big you might want to split it into 2 files

[hrsnblm]

Thanks again for all your help.:D

[jalucerol]

Try open it with Brics CAD or something like that, usually fix the bug

[Freerefill]

I've had a very similar problem when I was working with AutoCAD Map 2009. Everyone else used 2008, and for some reason, every now and then, someone would save a drawing in a certain format or something and I would be unable to open it. The way I solved my problem was going back to AutoCAD 2008. I don't think that's exactly the solution you're looking for, but it's my two cents.