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Autosave and Backup Drawings

Audrey Moore
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Autosave

When working in CET, your work is auto-saved periodically while in progress, even if you have not given the drawing a name. This makes it possible to recover unnamed as well as named files.

By default, CET autosaves every drawing with a 9-minute interval and keeps 2 of the autosaved files. On the The Data Management Tab (Security), you can disable autosave, or change the number of files to save or the time between saves. To prevent data loss, we recommend that the autosave feature remains enabled.

If you had not already saved/named your drawing when CET closed, you might find your work in the recent New Drawing files in %localappdata%\CET Data\64-bit\autosave

 

Backups

CET automatically makes backups of your drawing on certain occasions, for example, if you choose to exit the program without saving your changes. This makes it possible for you to recover lost files.

By default, CET keeps 8 backups per drawing. On The Data Management Tab (Security), you can disable auto backup, change the number of backups to save, or change the default backup directory too. To prevent data loss, we recommend that the auto backup feature remains enabled.

By default, all the Backups are stored in a single location under Documents\CET Documents\autobackup

 

Opening your Backup drawing

There are three methods for opening your Backup Drawings.

  1. From Windows File Explorer
    • Navigate to the auto backup directory specified in The Data Management Tab (Security), where you will find the folder autobackup.
    • In the autobackup folder, double-click any Backups versions you wish to open.
      The name format of the file is [Name of Drawing].[Date]_[Time].cmbak
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  2. From the CET File menu
    • Click on File at the top left of CET.
    • Select the Recents tab and click View backups and autosave.View backups and autosaves.gif
    • Use the search bar if you do not see the file name you need

 

Recover unsaved drawings

CET will automatically check for partially saved files at start up. If something goes wrong during the saving process of a drawing or if the program crashed, an alert will be shown. The alert will show unsaved drawings if any are found.

1. You can choose to Recover or Discard a drawing.

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2. If you choose to Recover a drawing, two options are available:

You can either Open the recovered drawing with CET or choose to show the drawing in its source folder with the Show in Folder button.

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Comments

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  • Barbara Martin

    Is there a way to specify the location of Autosave and Back-up files? 

    I'd rather them on my hard drive than taking space on One Drive.

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  • Yewsiing Choong
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    Hello Bmartin,

    Currently, there is no way for us to specifically specify the location of the backup files, as it follows wherever your original drawing is. Which in this case, it seems your drawing is in OneDrive.

    However, if you do want to keep OneDrive files on your device:

    1. Navigate to your folder (Using the File Explorer in your Computer, not from your Web Browser) in which you want to keep in your device.
    2. Right-click on that folder, and select Always keep on this device.
    3. Give it a while to download the files in that folder, and it should have a "filled green tick icon".
    4. This will make all the files and folders in that folder always be on your device, including new additions into it (your backup drawings).

    For more information:
    Save disk space with OneDrive Files On-Demand for Windows 10 - Office Support (microsoft.com)

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