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Drawing recovery

Drawing recovery - AutoCAD for Mac Tutorial

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Drawing recovery

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- [Instructor] In the event that AutoCAD crashes, AutoCAD tries to save your work so that you don't lose too much of your time. I say that it tries because it is not foolproof and I would not recommend relying on it in place of simply regularly saving your work. However, things happen and AutoCAD is trying to help you out. If AutoCAD does crash, when you restart AutoCAD, it should pop up with a window that looks like this. If you do not see the dialogue box, you can go to Help and Recover Files. From here, you should see any of the files that were opened when AutoCAD crashed. For each file, you should see each time that AutoCAD did an auto save with the time and info for each save. If you aren't familiar, if you go to Preferences, under the General tab here, we have the option for AutoCAD to automatically save our file every so often. The files are temporary files and AutoCAD keeps track of them when AutoCAD crashes for recovery purposes, most of the time. Again, there is no…

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