Corrupt Civ3D files

[tim_newsome]

At first I though it was my server/network. I have never seen anything this weird in the area of corrupt Civ 3D files.

Something is deleting the files when saving. That gave thought to a virus. I isolated other files to my desktop and they are performing fine.

2 Questions

1) Does Wblock work for extracting the Civil 3D data to import into a fresh new Civ 3D file?

2) Any ideas of other solutions and what the issue might be?

[Opie]

Have you tried using LandXML?

What about using Data References to Data Shortcuts and then promoting the references to the new drawing?

Neither of those will catch all elements of a Civil 3D drawing, but should get most of the elements.

[remi678731]

Hi
I had the same issue a few years back. It turned out that I had logged out of autodesk 360, but the logged for some reason didn't completely disconnect. so every time I tried to save it was trying to save to the cloud but couldn't complete so it crashed. I did discover that when you save a temporary file with the ext .tmp if I remember correctly. Any way when I located these files in my temp folder and renamed them .dwg they opened fine. The strange thing was if I did a save as with a new name the save was fine.

[tim_newsome]

Hi
I had the same issue a few years back. It turned out that I had logged out of autodesk 360, but the logged for some reason didn't completely disconnect. so every time I tried to save it was trying to save to the cloud but couldn't complete so it crashed. I did discover that when you save a temporary file with the ext .tmp if I remember correctly. Any way when I located these files in my temp folder and renamed them .dwg they opened fine. The strange thing was if I did a save as with a new name the save was fine.

I think you are on the mark. I am going to reply with an image that came up in Civil 3D when I tried to delete the files on the server. I went to my autosave directory and opened the files and saved to C: drive and they are performing just fine. when I went to delete the ones on the server besides it taking 15 minute to delte 2 files this came up... going to post image in a new reply.