File that isn't opening correctly? Objects missing

[Frana]

I'd hate to think that my file is shot. It just doesn't make sense?! I had walls that were drawn in around 1 week beforehand. And a I had a machine drawn up that I hadn't done anything to all of last week. Why would the file just decide to delete these objects during a save?

 

And that preview window that shows the machine I was drawing before I closed out. It's in the same view i was in when i closed, but it's not there?

 

It's just all seems weird, and frustrating.

 

As for rapidshare, my company blocks the use of it.

[ReMark]

Sorry. Don't know what to tell you.

[Frana]

Well, I attempted to recover the .bak file from the save to my desktop. Did not work, it flashed a pic of the machine I was working on, but then I still ended up with the same file with missing objects. I messed with the audit, I tried it first on the file in the network folder, by saying "fix errors (y)". I then closed out and re-opened that file to try audit again, this time saying "fix errors (n)" Wasn't sure what would happen. And of course as I stated earlier, lots of errors were found and so on...

 

So, with my last bit of dying breath, listening to "taps", I made a copy of the .bak file from the network save which had a last mod date of the day prior to my save. I renamed this with a .dwg ext. and opened.

 

YES!

 

The file opened, without all the mods I made during thursday, but everything else is there!!! Which was ALOT more than I had remembered. This is a bit of very good news considering the potential loss I was dealing with. I also ran the audit on this file, and 0 errors found!

 

Still don't understand?

 

Now, with a conversion of a .bak file... I just saved as a new file name. Is this all I must do? I would like to completely break ties with the old files and sorta start clean.

[ReMark]

Yes, do a "save as" using a new name. Get a better back up system going too. Don't put your trust in the virtual network. Back up your files to a CD, DVD or even a flash drive.

 

You came real close to disaster. I'd be a lot more careful in the future especially with large files.

 

I'd also keep a close eye on this particular drawing if I were you. Consider running it through Audit again the next time you open it up.

[Frana]

Ran the audit once more, still 0 errors. I saved a third copy to a flash drive. Not sure why I hadn't thought of that before. I usually save my "completed" files on there.

 

I will agree, I got real lucky on this somehow, but still have no clue what happened. Very scary, especially on this file. This was my biggest project yet.

 

Again, as always, I appreciate the help this forum gives out. And I do apologize for bothering everyone, but I freaked when the file opened the way it did and I couldn't find anything!

[ReMark]

Your file got corrupted in some manner. Bad sectors on hard drives are one of the major causes of corrupted files.