Autosave Reactor

You're welcome. I bet you changed it to "C:\AutoSave", not "C:\AutoSave\".
Thank you for helping refine my code. It hadn't occurred to me that the
trailing delimiter in the directory path is optional. Hope this helps.

James

;;; 'My' form
(strcat (GetVar "savefilepath")
"\\AutoSave "
(GetVar "dwgname")
)
;; - "C:\\\\AutoSave Drawing1.dwg"

;;; 'Your' form
(strcat (GetVar "savefilepath")
"AutoSave "
(GetVar "dwgname")
)
;; - "C:\\AutoSave Drawing1.dwg"

;;; Better form
(strcat (vl-string-right-trim "\\" (GetVar "savefilepath"))
"\\AutoSave "
(GetVar "dwgname")
)
;; - "C:\\AutoSave Drawing1.dwg"

 

Thanks James:

Yes changed it to "C:\AutoSave", not "C:\AutoSave\".

Will give the new code a go tomorrow.

I am using the old code for now and have taken part of the autosave file
name and mixed it with the DWGNAME to come up with a unique name for my
copied sv$ file. This is so that if 2 dwgs are open the same time with the
same name they will have unique backup files. It is possible in some
situations that a dwgs named PLAN might exist in many different folders in
some offices and opened the same time.

So PLAN.DWG & PLAN.DWG will produce the followinf 2 sv$ files:
PLAN_1_1_5863.sv$
PLAN_1_1_5787.sv$

Our routine will have files name created as such for each dwg open.
AutoSave_1_1_5863_PLAN.dwg
AutoSave_1_1_5787_PLAN.dwg

You may not have this problem in your office but it does happen in ours.

Thanks again.
Andreas