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> On 03/07/12 10:17 PM, Coriwright [via LibreCAD] wrote:>
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>  > As I was working on my file, I periodically used the disk icon to save
>  > my work.  I noticed that I was originally working from a folder on our
>  > file server at work.  I started working on that file yesterday and
>  > there are several versions of the file with # hash tags in the
>  > beginning of the file depending when the latest version of the file
>  > is.
>  >
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> - Normally, there is only one recovery file, and that recovery
>    file is removed automatically when you save your drawing.
>    Basically, two things can make a recovery file still exist
>    after LibreCAD was closed.
>
>         1) Computer power lost, operating system crash, or
>            LibreCAD crash.
>
>         2) Exiting LibreCAD without saving the change you
>            made to your drawing.
>
>    So, I do not understand how come you can have many recovery files,
>    if you was always saving you drawing regularly.
>
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>  >
>  > The latest version of my file saved locally on my desktop.
>  > However, that is the finished product and it is the #Equipment
>  > Staging.dxf~ file that I cannot open.
>  >
>  > Perhaps I got confused as to which directory (from the file server or
>  > from my desktop) I was working on as one is supposed to be a mirror of
>  > the other (working with the file is much quicker when on my desktop).
>  >
>  > I am really not sure why I have a back up and recovery file.  As I was
>  > saving the file it looked like another "recovery" file was being
>  > created.  Is there a way I can restore my #Equipment Staging.dxf~ file
>  > to a format that I can open and save again?
>  >
>
> - Well, recovery file and auto-backup file are just a "copy"
>    of your drawing file at a certain point in time.
>    So, to recover a drawing file from a recovery file or a
>    backup file, you have only to make a copy of that file,
>    using a different name.
>    In your case, you can copy "#Equipment Staging.dxf~" as
>    "Equipment Staging.dxf", or "Equipment Staging Test.dxf"
>    if "Equipment Staging.dxf" already exist.
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>
> Claude
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