can't open drawing

[Joe Bishop]

We were working on a drawing and closed out like we normally would (I think)
and now when we try and open the drawing, it tell us that the drawing file
is not valid. It shows up in the preview screen, but will not open. We are
using the latest acad and survcadd. Any help would be appreciated? Also
the .bak file got deleted somehow. Is there a way to get the file the way
it was last friday? Hope you guys can help.

[Don Reichle]

Hey Joe;

One more option for you to try is look for an SV$ file (autosave file) on
the system where this file was opened last. You could look in that machine's
Options to see which folder is designated to contain the Autosave files. The
only thing that might prevent the file from being saved is too long an
interval set for saving. On some systems I've seen 120 minutes, which I
always change to about 7.

HTH

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"Joe Bishop" <jlbsurvey@ameritech.net> wrote in message
news:dhrdv3$p3k$1@update.carlsonsw.com...

We were working on a drawing and closed out like we normally would (I
think) and now when we try and open the drawing, it tell us that the
drawing file is not valid. It shows up in the preview screen, but will
not open. We are using the latest acad and survcadd. Any help would be
appreciated? Also the .bak file got deleted somehow. Is there a way to
get the file the way it was last friday? Hope you guys can help.

[C. Joseph Lynge]

Joe,

If finding the .SV$ file and renaming it to .DWG doesn't work, you have
one more chance to recover the drawing.

Open a new clean drawing, not any of your highly customized template
files, then DDINSERT the problem file into the new drawing at 0,0 (to
keep your coordinates the same between drawings). If it comes in, save
immediately. After saving explode the drawing and then PURGE, AUDIT,
PURGE, and then SAVE. You may need to close the drawing and reopen then
run the PURGE, AUDIT, PURGE, SAVE routine again to weed out some of the
more bothersome and in bedded junk from the file.

CJ



Joe Bishop wrote:

We were working on a drawing and closed out like we normally would (I think)
and now when we try and open the drawing, it tell us that the drawing file
is not valid. It shows up in the preview screen, but will not open. We are
using the latest acad and survcadd. Any help would be appreciated? Also
the .bak file got deleted somehow. Is there a way to get the file the way
it was last friday? Hope you guys can help.

[C. Joseph Lynge]

Joe,

Also set your save percent to 0(zero) and your autosave interval to
10-30 minutes. Depending on how much work you want to redo after a
drawing crash, but things do go faster the second time you have to draw
them, you've had practice.

CJ


Joe Bishop wrote:

We were working on a drawing and closed out like we normally would (I think)
and now when we try and open the drawing, it tell us that the drawing file
is not valid. It shows up in the preview screen, but will not open. We are
using the latest acad and survcadd. Any help would be appreciated? Also
the .bak file got deleted somehow. Is there a way to get the file the way
it was last friday? Hope you guys can help.

[surveyor]

Joe Bishop wrote:

We were working on a drawing and closed out like we normally would (I
think)
and now when we try and open the drawing, it tell us that the drawing
file
is not valid. It shows up in the preview screen, but will not open. We
are
using the latest acad and survcadd. Any help would be appreciated?
Also
the .bak file got deleted somehow. Is there a way to get the file the
way
it was last friday? Hope you guys can help.

If you are working on a Novell network, you can right click on the folder
that contained the drawing and select "salvage file" when files are
overwritten or deleted, they are still on the hard drive, only the index
is erased. Most networks have a way of recovering those files. On Novell
the user can do it real easy. JRL








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"Joe Bishop" <jlbsurvey@ameritech.net> wrote in message
news:dhrdv3$p3k$1@update.carlsonsw.com...

We were working on a drawing and closed out like we normally would (I
think)
and now when we try and open the drawing, it tell us that the drawing file
is not valid. It shows up in the preview screen, but will not open. We
are
using the latest acad and survcadd. Any help would be appreciated? Also
the .bak file got deleted somehow. Is there a way to get the file the way
it was last friday? Hope you guys can help.