How To Recover AutoCAD DWG File ?

[thomashubba19691968]

Tried to recover bak file, but there is no bak file in temporary files. AutoCAD didn’t recover the file itself. The version is 2014. There migt be some error occurred in saving process. Don’t know any solutions. Please help me to repair this file.

[rkmcswain]

By default, the .BAK file will be in the same location as the .DWG file.

If there are any autosave files, they will be in your %temp% directory by default. If an autosave file is written at least twice, then there will be a .BAK file for the autosave file also in that same place.

To find the locations for autosave and %temp%, go into OPTIONS, FILES tab, and refer to this:


options23.png

[Tom Beauford]

The command DRAWINGRECOVERY will bring up the Drawing Recovery Manager.

In OPTIONS on the Open and Save tab make sure "Automatic save" and "Create backup copy with each save" are checked.
I keep my "Minutes between saves" set to 10. With bigger drawings on less powerful PC's you would have to set it higher.

[Tom Beauford]

There is also an Express Tool MOVEBAK that changes the destination directory for BAK files.