closed drawing without saving... can i recover

[michael256]

iu accidently close a drawing that i had been working on with out saving... is there a way that i can recover the work that was not saved?

[Blackfish]

Check in Tools > Options > Files > Automatic Save File Location a then in that folder find a backup copy of the file you are looking for. Simply change .bak extension to .dwg and open in AutoCAD.
You can set in Tools > Options > Open and Save > Automatic Save your desired time between saves, something like 15 minutes should be fine.

[Organic]

like 15 minutes should be fine.

Mine is set at 1 minute.

[rkent]

Autosave saves a file with a .sv$ file extension and erases that when you close without any problems. The .bak is created when you have save a backup set to on and you use the save or qsave function. I think you are out of luck.

[Dadgad]

I hate doing over work I have already done, I set my autosave time to about 6 minutes.
The default time interval is 10 minutes.

You may be out of luck, but you should definitely locate your AUTOSAVE folder and check, maybe you'll get lucky.

[ReMark]

Consider it a lesson learned. I bet you won't make the same mistake in the future.

[michael256]

lesson learned!! I changed my autosave to 5 min. however I could not locate an .sv$ file. The work has already been redone, long night last night. For the future where can i find these .sv$ files? And when you say they are deleted when you close without any problems, does that mean they will only be kept if the computer crashes while the drawing is open?

[ReMark]

AutoSave.PNG

How's this?

AutoSave is not 100% perfect. There may be times you suffer a crash and AutoCAD does not create an autosave file.

[michael256]

ahh yes that's what I'm looking for. Thank you all for your help!

[SLW210]

Ctrl+S is only sure way to save your work.

You do not need AutoCrash (a.k.a. AutoSave) for crash recovery, it will automatically create a recover file (in any situation where it will keep a .sv$) in newer versions.

.bak is relevent only if you use Ctrl+S often, so what is the point.

Ctrl+S
Ctrl+S
Ctrl+S

I've never lost over a few minutes work.