Autosave time resets itself

[Merlin]

Hi, gang,

I posted this question in the AutoCAD 2007 forum the other day, I've since found out it the scenario was occurring in some of our 2006 versions as well.....this is the problem:-

With a few of our liscences, we're having trouble with changing our Auto save time. Whether we go to OPTIONS and change the time there, or if we use the "SAVETIME" sysvar, the result is the same....it always resets the time back to 45 minutes, completely disregarding whatever we changed it to.

I know it's not a major thing, just an annoyance. Any comments?

John Mc

[rkmcswain]

Once again, let me make sure I understand.

If you type in SAVETIME, set it to 5, then press enter it is immediately set back to 45?

So your command line looks like this?



Command:
SAVETIME
Enter new value for SAVETIME <45>: 5
Command:
SAVETIME
Enter new value for SAVETIME <45>:


Are you in a network environment?
Is it possible that someone has installed a routine to keep SAVETIME set at 45?
Do other variables "reset themselves"?

[Merlin]

I think you're right ...it may be a network problem...I'll check that out......thanks

[scott.wilcox]

Perhaps a LISP routine also is resetting the SAVETIME every time it is run.

[Merlin]

UPDATE:....
We're still looking into it and it certainly seems to be a network thing....at present we're looking at a "work-around" and making a lisp routine to set things at the start-up....when we find the location of the offending coding, we'll be make the appropriate changes then.....thanks all for your advice

John Mc

[thomas.stright]

We have eliminated the use of auto-save altogether. Of course proper training is a must.

[The VLG]

We have eliminated the use of auto-save altogether. Of course proper training is a must.
I like to use AutoSave, but my pc is less happy & I occasionally find that it has decided to turn itself off completely. Now I'm must say that I very rarely need to go hunting for one, I think I just like the safety net being there.

[david_peterson]

It sounds to me like some one hard coded it in the front end set up. We had the issue as well, but the our Cad Manager changed it back to allow users to reset it.

[Mike.Perry]

Hi

The following thread may help...

AutoSave Resetting to 0

Have a good one, Mike

[thomas.stright]

I like to use AutoSave, but my pc is less happy & I occasionally find that it has decided to turn itself off completely. Now I'm must say that I very rarely need to go hunting for one, I think I just like the safety net being there.The reason we have it off is due to files being corrupted during the autosave.

[rkmcswain]

The reason we have it off is due to files being corrupted during the autosave.

Never heard of that one. Are you saying that it corrupts the open file in the editor, or the SV$ file is corrupt?

All Autosave does is run the SAVE command (writes the contents of the editor to a file that is different than the currently open file). Not sure how this would corrupt the file in the editor since it's not affected by SAVE or Autosave.