This series of articles will go over several examples of drawing recovery methods, depending on the scenario your drawing files are currently in:
Autosave Recovery
In this scenario, we will be recovery the drawing from the last autosave state. This method is meant for cases in which the other methods have proven unsuccessful, or the current drawing files are unrecoverable. Keep in mind that the program will attempt an Autosave while a drawing is open after a set period of time, so this will only work with the last autosave state. Meaning, if you have a drawing you managed to open and work in for a bit, but noticed that data might be missing partway through, you won't be able to go back to the original state via this method if the Autosave triggers again, as it will override the last Autosave files.
In order to recover with the AutoSave, you will need to browse to your Temp folder on your computer. You can follow the same path structure, as show here, or you can type in %temp%, which will take you directly to this folder. Then, follow the steps below:
- Make sure you can view file extensions, as mentioned in the article Windows Settings to "Unhide" File Extensions and Hidden Folders
- Find the files with extensions .mz$ and .SV$. They should have your drawing name as part of the file name, and they should have the same time stamp.
- Copy these two files into your drawing location
- Create a new folder in this location called "Backup". Move the .DWG and .MSZ files into this location. (if you don't want to save this backup, simply delete those two files instead)
- Rename the two temp files by:
- Remove the extra characters so they have the normal drawing name
- Rename the .SV$ file to .DWG
- Rename the .mz$ file to .MSZ
- Open the drawing as normal
As with any of these scenarios, please contact Technical Support if you are seeing this happen frequently, or if any of the these or other recovery methods are not working for you.
Chris Clemente
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