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V5 Autosave - recovery

V5 Autosave - recovery

V5 Autosave - recovery

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Hello,

We have the autosave set to run every 30 minutes. This is a good method as a lot of the designers are from off the drawing boards and haven't been conditioned to save regularly. One of the designers here has just had a crash and upon restarting V5 did not recover his 'previous session data'. Now it appears his mornings work is lost forever. Does anyone know of a manual method to recover the previous session data?

RE: V5 Autosave - recovery

Nope.  As has been discussed on this and other boards in the past, the Warm Start functionality within V5 is pretty unreliable.  In fact, I don't think I have ever had a session warm start successfully (and I have been using V5 since V5R5).

Generally, what this designer just learned the hard way is what we have all done.  Generally, you don't do it more than once or twice, and you learn rapidly to save often.  When working on a particularly complex design, I have been known to save every couple of minutes even.  

RE: V5 Autosave - recovery

I use Incremental Backup on V5R15 and it works well.

RE: V5 Autosave - recovery

Yes, the manual method is VERY simple:

1) save often
2) crash
3) restart Catia
4) File -> Open
5) resume work close to where you crashed

Automatic saves are not only unreliable, they're also unstable.  They can cause problems with other processes.  In past versions, they could also cause a session to crash if they coincided with certain functions, or the callup of certain functions.  They were especially a problem when one tried to do a normal save, and the autosave executed at the same time.

I would turn it off.  It's a vestigial function.




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