CyberAngel Posted April 11, 2019 Share Posted April 11, 2019 There's always been a pause between the point when I start to drag a selected item or items and the point when it actually begins to move. I took a close look today and the system is saving a backup of the drawing during that pause. This makes no sense. Can anyone explain what causes this and, more importantly, how to stop it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dana W Posted April 11, 2019 Share Posted April 11, 2019 Yes, that is a pain. (AFAIK) What it is doing is creating the auto-save copy (.sv$) of the drawing. The only way to stop it is to turn off automatic save. The backup file, (.bak) is only created when you QUIT and/or SAVE or SAVE AS, so it can be hours out of date depending on operator paranoia level. Auto-save can be scheduled for a time increment that is longer which will help a bit without running the risk of losing hours of work if you have to recover a dwg file. This is done on OPTIONS >> OPEN and SAVE. Automatic save is apparently a lower priority foreground process than most AutoCad commands so it waits for what;s called a system interrupt to run, and we probably give it one by clicking and/or dragging stuff with no command running. This is an educated guess based on 37 years of hating computers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ammobake Posted May 15, 2019 Share Posted May 15, 2019 I noticed this also at the last place I worked. I recommend setting autosave to 15/20 minutes and uncheck all the other boxes in options/open and save tab (not that it will fix it). Are you using the CRC validation feature in the settings? Autosave can crash drawings too - which always sucks in a wierd, ironic way. Autosave in a big file is annoying as heck (autosave always seems to kick in while you're in a time crunch). -ChriS Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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