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#Acad Rename

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#28684From: joe cochranJan 14, 1992 11:27 PM
I am using a 386/20 mhz with Ver 112c. All hard drives have plenty of free space. I create a drawing of about 1mb in size, type END to exit and save drawing and get an error message as follows; "Cannot rename (filename) stored under (numbers and letter, such as "a3b44n3n3")". I searched all hard drives for some sort of drawing that resembles this funny filename and have nothing to be found. Can someone tell me why this error happens and where does this file go and can the file be retrieve. Thanks Joe
#28741From: Joe MacRaeJan 15, 1992 12:13 PM
Joe, The funny file name comes from AutoCAD. This is the temp file that Acad creates while you are working on the drawing. When you END a drawing the drawing editor will delete any current .bak file, rename your original drawing file to .bak and rename the temp file to the drawing.dwg file. For some reason ACAD is losing the temp file (or at least thinks it is). When you reload the drawing are your edits still in place ?????
#28834From: joe cochranJan 15, 1992 9:22 PM
JOE, thanks for the reply. The file that Acad says that it made is nowhere to be found on any drive in any directory. Is there some sort of hidden file that Acad makes that can be recovered? Thanks for your help, Joe
#28863From: David GariJan 15, 1992 10:31 PM
Could be network permissions, disk partitioning software, or that FILES= are not set high enough. Tell us more.