Disappearing Saved Files

I've talked to three people now who claim that they have had supposedly
saved SolidWorks files disappear. One of my colleagues swears that he saved
a file and then saw it disappear from Windows Explorer as SW crashed. Two
people in our Users Group told us that they had saved files before a crash
but when they loaded the files they came in as earlier versions. My
colleague has also seen similar behavior. Does this ring a bell with anyone
else?

Jerry Steiger
Tripod Data Systems
"take the garbage out, dear"

 

If things fall perfectly right, then yes, you can save a file, have a
problem/crash during that process, and it screws up the save. Usually
this will corrupt the file instead of not updating it at all. This is
VERY rare though.
As for files disappearing... once they're in the system that has
nothing to do w/ SolidWorks and I would honestly guess that they either
didn't save them, or they saved them somewhere other than where they
wanted and just didn't realize it.

Steven

 

....And do these scurvy 3 like t' smoke t' dank?