Autosave idea

Just been doing a Google to see if there's any way to force ACAD into
doing regular autosaves, seems not from what I've read. Had a thought
though, is it possible to write a script that would save after X
amount of mouse or key clicks? any lisp gurus out there think it's
possible.

Tim

 

Type SAVETIME at the command prompt & see what that tells you...

Kelvin

 

That's what Autosave does. Savetime is the variable that
dictates the amount of time between Autosaves.

Be sure that you understand that this DOES NOT write the
contents of the editor to the current filename, but rather
to an "autosave" file. The current file on disk remains
unchanged until you either SAVE or QSAVE.

I wouldn't want an Autosave that writes to the current
filename, what happens when you make edits that you do not
want to save, but the Autosave kicks in? Bad idea.

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Sure there is! Go to Tools menu, Options, Open and Save tab.

===Steve Boucher===

 

Hi guys, thanks for the response

I think I should have given you some more information as we seem to be
talking about different issues here, so hopefully this will give you a
bit more to work with.

I'm waaaaay too familiar with autosave, sometimes I feel I rename
files for a living

Problem is basicly this - I'm doing Architectural CAD work on a
celeron 333 (WTF) with 192Mb RAM (slight improvement there!!) on a
slightly flaky network. I'm working freelance for a UK University so
little hope of hardware/network improvements.

No surprise then that ACAD takes this system, chews it up & spits it
out on a fairly regular basis.

To counter this I have auto-lets-not-bother-to-save-really set to 10
min. Thing is I had two crashes yesterday (only two hooray) and both
times the most recent autosave file was 40 mins old?? lost a fair
amount of work, I know I KNOW save you prat !!!

It just got me thinking. The way I seem to work is in periods of
thought (like what the hell do I do next!!) and periods of drawing up
the results, it seems to me that the more you concentrate on actually
drawing the more likely you are to forget to save regularly. This
style of working dosent fit well with autosave being time based. At
full steam you can get a lot done in 10 mins, let alone 40.

So I was thinking if the interval between saves was based on
mouse/keyboard input then the more you worked the more frequently the
work got saved.

Is this rambling nonsense or not ???

Tim

 

Personally, I have autosave turned to something stupid like 240
minutes because I hate when it kicks in & gives me a delay. I just
hit the save icon (or CTRL-S) after completing an important command or
three. Seems to me that having something else running in the
background would make it even more likely to crash your system.

Discipline. Use save. If that doesn't work, place $20 (ok, whatever
something that hurts only slightly to you works out to in £) into a
"dork jar" every time you waste time fretting about and/or recovering
lost work & see how much it adds up by the end of the month.

Kelvin

 

Exactly, there is no substitution for human interaction.