Originally Posted by
cadtag
Here's a fun one - which fortunately was caught in time, but next time may not be noticed. It's the second time this has happened, and no one seems to have a good idea of the cause.
While working in a drawing on the server with four layout tabs assigned to the sheet set, I made a minor text edit, did a QSave, and then opened a different file from SSM. Several minutes later, I noticed that the SSM windows was showing ?'s over the drawing icons for the sheets in the file I had just saved. Double-clicking the icon for one of those sheets gave me an alert that the dwg associated with the sheet could not be found.
I dropped back to Windows Explorer, and browsed to the correct folder, and sure enough the dwg file did NOT show up. The only .bak file for that drawing had a date of March 5 - although I have been in and out of that project and that design file repeatedly over the past few weeks.
To make it more interesting, that folder, uniquely among every other project folder on the server, had 20+ .tmp files, along with the expected dwg and other extensions. the .dwl and .dwl2 files for the missing dwg were still there, and the dwg was still open in the active Acad session, but the dwg file no longer existed.
I did verify that no one else with access to that project folder had been doing anything with that project, so the idea of someone else deleting the file has been rejected.
Nothing relevant showed up in the server event logs.. ITS will run a chkdsk on the server this evening as a precaution (primarily because of the huge number of tmp files in that folder) but no-one in house has a reasonable idea of the cause.
Thoughts?