Setting Automatic Save and Backup Options

To protect your drawing files, use automatic save and backup options.

When a drawing closes normally, the autosave files are deleted.

To set automatic save and backup options:

1. Do one of the following:

   • Click Tools > Options (or type Options).

     Click Application menu > Preferences (or type Options).

     In the Options dialog box, click System Options .

   • Type SystemOptions.
2. Expand Auto-save & Backup.
3. Expand Automatic save file location to set the folder for automatically generated saved files (files of type .ds$).

   Click Browse to browse for the folder.

4. Expand Auto-save/backups to set:
   • Enable auto-save: Automatically saves the drawing to autosave files (files of type .ds$). You can specify the interval for auto-save in minutes.
   • File extension for automatic save file: Specifies the file extension for autosave files (default is .ds$).
   • Save backup at each save: Controls whether backup copies (files of type .bak) are created each time you save a drawing.
   • Use original format: Specifies whether the backup file is saved in its original drawing file version or in the current file version.
   • Maintain log file: When enabled, creates a file for recording the command history for all drawings in a session.

     By default the log log file is located in the application data roaming folder of the current software release. The name of the log file is history.txt.

5. Click OK.