Auto Save re-path error

[Guest]

We just got new computers in my office, and are having a few issues setting up AutoCAD (v2010).

 

My co-worker is having an issue with re-pathing the autosave location.

 

When it is re-pathed there is an error that says:

 

'The directory specified for automatic saves must exist and have read\write permission. The value previously saved for the automatic save files will be used.'

 

The file that it is linked to was just created, and the user has full administrative rights.

 

In turn this effectively makes the autosave not work.

 

Any thoughts?

 

Thanks in advance,

[Cad64]

Why does he need to repath the Autosave location? What's wrong with the default location?

Does Autocad crash so much that he needs a more convenient location?

[BIGAL]

We repath the autosave to make it easier to clean it up rather than "document& settings\meuser\application data\autodesk\civ3d 2011\enu etc ours is \acadtemp.

 

Also our guys dont clean up all the time we restored 5Gb of room on the disk in one go he had not deleted the old backup files for 12 months.

 

we also know that Autocad never crashes or corrupts a dwg.

[Cad64]

Also our guys dont clean up all the time we restored 5Gb of room on the disk in one go he had not deleted the old backup files for 12 months.

 

Backup files are completely different from Autosave files. Autosave files are only saved when Autocad crashes. If it closes normally the Autosave file is deleted. So if you removed 5GB worth of Autosave files from someone's machine that had accumulated within 12 months, I would say that guy has a pretty serious problem.

 

we also know that Autocad never crashes or corrupts a dwg.

 

I'm not sure what you mean by that?

[Guest]

I normally re-path the plot logs, autosave ect to a new location to keep it all in one place. For me, it makes it easier to find things easier when things go wrong, and I delete it all when the file gets pretty large. At some point they are no longer needed like the BAK files. The thing that I did not understand was why I was able to re-path things, and the other user was not able to do so.

Working on the same power supply as the shop, it goes down from time to time, from the shop overloading the breaker. For the most part, I would rather be safe than sorry. Now understand this does not happen all of the time.

And yes since we upgraded to 2010, it seems to crash a lot more than when we had 2008. I got all of the 'hotfixes' & updates from the autodesk website, and it seems to be crashing less.

It seems that the network administrator fixed the problem, though I am not sure what he did to fix it. I was busy and did not pay enough attention to find out what he did to fix the problem.

[rkmcswain]

We repath the autosave to make it easier to clean it up rather than "document& settings\meuser\application data\autodesk\civ3d 2011\enu etc ours is \acadtemp.

The default autosave path should be %temp% - I've never seen it default to the path you entered above.

Getting to and cleaning %temp% is no more difficult than any path you can create.

 

 

Back to your original question, AutoCAD certainly thinks the location you have chosen is not read/write. What O/S is this?

[Guest]

I just got a new OS and computer. Upgraded to x64 bit system with windows 7. So far it has been quite a learning curve, considering we got the computers in the middle of a very large project.

 

The folder that was created to be used, was a new folder created by the user. Is there something in windows 7 that would force a new folder to be read only?

[rkmcswain]

I just got a new OS and computer. Upgraded to x64 bit system with windows 7. So far it has been quite a learning curve, considering we got the computers in the middle of a very large project.

 

The folder that was created to be used, was a new folder created by the user. Is there something in windows 7 that would force a new folder to be read only?

 

Yes. I don't know all of the specifics, but UAC and WRP lock down a lot of what you used to be able to do in XP.

I would leave the default directory of %temp% alone and just use that.

[August_Light]

For me this was a two part fix. I found this message happening when I used the 'migrate settings' option which I still love for all the tool palettes and workspace stuff that it brings up from my previous version saving me much down time trying to remember just how I had it. Unfortunately it would grab my created "profile" which changed some paths that would normally be automatically set if the program was simply installed. So in the options dialog box find the 'log file location' and make sure it's path is going to the correct version 'enu' file (mine was going back two versions ago to a file that no longer existed on my computer)

Mine file was found in the following location

C:\users\myusername\appdata\local\autodesk\autocadversion\r18.2\enu

The two part portion was making sure that I had full 'administrator' rights in every associated file and icon so when you right click and select properties you need to check that both the shortcut tab (advanced) and security tab are 'run as administrator.

Hope this helps someone else in the future