The easiest way to find temporary files folder in Windows is to right-click on the windows logo in lower left corner of the computer screen and choose “Run”: On the other hand, if you never save your drawing manually, it will be saved automatically every 10 minutes.Īutosave files can also be just renamed from sv$ to dwg and used as regular drawing.īy default, sv$ files are saved in user’s temporary file directory. This means – if you regularly save your drawing file every 5-7 minutes maually, autosave will not occur, and it will never save the drawing automatically because defined 10 minute interval never passed. But NOT necessary every 10 minutes! For example, if interval is set to 10 minutes, drawing file will be saved automatically after 10 minutes has passed since last save (manual or automatic). Third, not so common, but important extension is sv$. This is autosave (automatically saved) file, and it’s created in regular time intervals (10 minutes, by default). Enabling and setting up autosave and backup
