2009 won't open drawing

[SwChilly]

I was just in a drawing and it was automatically saving (another issue is that it take 2 minutes for it to save), and it timed out on me and I got the AutoCAD Error Report screen, then it doesn't respond and shuts down. So I tried to reload the drawing but it won't even open; I keep getting the AutoCAD Error Report Screen and same thing, it shuts down. I have tried opening it through My Computer and same thing. What the heck did I do?

 

I can load other drawings just fine.

 

I looked for other threads like this but couldn't seem to find any info.

 

I treid restarting my computer but that didn't seem to do anything.

[Cad64]

Try opening the drawing using the RECOVER command.

[MSasu]

Try to open the drawing using RECOVER command. If this doesn't help, rename the BAK file with DWG extension and use it.

 

Regards,

[SwChilly]

Try to open the drawing using RECOVER command. If this doesn't help, rename the BAK file with DWG extension and use it.

 

Regards,

 

I've tried with recover but it didn't work.. I didn't change the bak file... I'll let you know what happens

 

I try to click the plus sign beside the recovery file and i get that message right away.

 

 

Also, tried to type recover and same thing... I don't know what I did but AutoCAD does not like me!

[Cad64]

So what happened when you renamed the .bak file? Did you get your drawing back?

 

Since Autocad crashed, you could search your computer for a file with an .sv$ extension. This file is generated anytime Autocad crashes, provided you have Autosave enabled. You can change the .sv$ to .dwg and get your drawing back.

[SwChilly]

So what happened when you renamed the .bak file? Did you get your drawing back?

 

Since Autocad crashed, you could search your computer for a file with an .sv$ extension. This file is generated anytime Autocad crashes, provided you have Autosave enabled. You can change the .sv$ to .dwg and get your drawing back.

 

It opened when I changed the .bak to .dwg... its just not as current as my dwg, but I guess it will have to do.. back to square one for me.

 

Thanks everyone!

[Cad64]

If you can find your drawing with the .sv$ extension, as I mentioned in my last post, it will be current. Just rename it to .dwg and you will be right back where you were, before the crash.

[SwChilly]

K i managed to get the .bak changed to the .dwg... so after working on that for a while it suddenly went "Read Only", so I closed it and tried to reopen it and now I get a message saying "Drawing file is not valid"..

 

Suggestions?

 

Tried DRAWINGRECOVERY but there isn't anything on that list anymore. Also, with RECOVER, I still get the "Drawing not valid" message

 

I tried looking up information but the threads don't seem like they pertain to me. I'm gonna start a new thread since this seems like a new issue.... Thanks guys!

[SwChilly]

If you can find your drawing with the .sv$ extension, as I mentioned in my last post, it will be current. Just rename it to .dwg and you will be right back where you were, before the crash.

 

I can't find the .sv$ file. I have the settings to save them under a specific folder but I looked and it wasnt there.

[SwChilly]

Ok here's the scoop:

 

I am working on a 2009 drawing that I have been working on all week. I was having issues with Autocad earlier about not being able to open the drawing but then I changed the .bak to .dwg and life is good.

 

Suddenly, the drawing goes to "Read-Only" and so I close out of it and go back in it and I get a "Drawing File is not Valid" message. PANIC!

 

I checked that it is in fact a .dwg and not any other extension. I tried RECOVER but it says "Unable to recover file" and I tried DRAWINGRECOVERY but there isn't anything listed there.

 

Any suggestions?

 

[MSasu]

You don't need to start a new thread on this issue.

 

If your drawing still has errors try to run an AUDIT on the recovered BAK file.

 

Regards,

[Cad64]

Starting a new thread just throws out all the advice you were already given and sets you back to square one. So in order to keep you from getting the same advice about running Recover, Audit, rename your .bak file, etc., I have merged your two threads.

[Cad64]

I think you may be having trouble with your computer. When was the last time you scanned for viruses or defragged or cleaned your registry or emptied your temp file or did any sort of maintenance? The problems you are experiencing are not normal.

 

Also, can you please provide a rundown of your computer specs and let us know what type of work you are doing? Maybe your computer can't handle the files?

[Dana W]

It is possible that some form of data corruption occurred in your drawing just before that last .bak was originally saved. The problem began to build while you edited your drawing and it crashed.

 

The original .bak may have contained that corrupted stuff when you renamed it, and as you edited, it went from bad to worse once again.

 

I had a drawing that began to crash every time I edited mline text, and then after about two crashes, it just went south like yours. I had to rename a .bak to recover it.

 

That helped for a while but it eventually happened again. I renamed another most recent .bak file, and then copied w/basepoint the whole drawing in bits, each major group of objects, to another fresh drawing file. It still had problems, like a handful of seemingly unrelated single point objects that I DID NOT copy or create all way way way out in modelouterspace that I could not delete (they were on defpoints layer) and dimensions that would only move one end if I moved their dimensioned object, weird stuff.

 

Before I started editing this final recovered file, I ran audit, and purge. The first audit found a dozen or so errors.

 

There were still issues so I ran both a couple more times. Audit found and corrected a couple more errors the second run. After that it was clean.

 

I did notice one thing. Purge is a strange duck. It can't get everything the first time. There is a hierarchy in there. Once the dependent objects are purged, then the higher stuff will purge too. It can take two or three or more purges to get every bit of superfluous stuff out of a very complicated drawing.

[SwChilly]

Thanks everyone! I feel loads better now. I did purge, audit, etc., but I've come to the conclusion that it wasn't an autocad problem and more of a computer networking problem. Temporarily, what I'm doing, is copying the files from the drive to my desktop, edit it and save it there, and the copy it back to the drive. That seems to work perfectly, but it takes more time. But as long as it works I'm happy . Thanks again! Take care