Autosave idea

Discussion in 'AutoCAD' started by Tim Denning, Sep 3, 2003.

  1. Tim Denning

    Tim Denning Guest

    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
     
    Tim Denning, Sep 3, 2003
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  2. Type SAVETIME at the command prompt & see what that tells you...

    Kelvin
     
    Kelvin Kundert, Sep 3, 2003
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  3. Tim Denning

    Smackypete Guest

    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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    Smackypete, Sep 4, 2003
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  4. Sure there is! Go to Tools menu, Options, Open and Save tab.

    ===Steve Boucher===
     
    Steve Boucher, Sep 4, 2003
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  5. Tim Denning

    Tim Denning Guest

    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
     
    Tim Denning, Sep 4, 2003
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  6. 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
     
    Kelvin Kundert, Sep 4, 2003
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  7. Tim Denning

    Smackypete Guest

    Exactly, there is no substitution for human interaction.
     
    Smackypete, Sep 5, 2003
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