Originally Posted by
gtepe.123006
I'm using AutoCAD 2008 and periodically my autosave will reset itself by unchecking and setting the time interval to 0. I check every now and then for this to happen but am caught out occasionally when I need to recover a dwg when the software locks up or crashs. Anybody have any ideas? I'm an a managed network and some other users sometime find the autosave setting disabled also, but it does not seem to be network wide when it does occur.
You can add the following code to your acaddoc.lsp. It will pop up an alert when you autosave time is changed, and automatically reset it to 5 minutes (you can change that).
I know publish will turn off the Autosave, and if it crashes, or is cancelled in the middle, it won't turn it back on.
Code:
(defun VTF (CALL CALLBACK)
(if (= (strcase (car CALLBACK)) "SAVETIME")
(progn
(setq ALK (getvar "savetime"))
(if (/= ALK 5)
(progn
(alert "Savetime has been changed, Resetting to 5 minutes! ")
(setvar "savetime" 5)
)
)
)
)
)