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(@paul56)
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I have an old program Softdesk 8 running in AutoCad 14. Works great for the small projects I'm working on. Lately I had an error message opening up Softdesk so I re-installed the software. There was a question regarding creating a new profile or overwrite the existing. I chose overwrite. When I started Softdesk I lost all my project files. Help. How can I retrieve them?

 
Posted : October 20, 2012 5:28 pm
(@stephen-ward)
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Most likely the software just "forgot" where it put them. Search your hard drive for dwg files or any other file type that you know would be with the project files. Once you figure out where they are I believe you'll be able to configure the project path in Softdesk so that it knows where to find them.

 
Posted : October 20, 2012 5:50 pm
(@paul56)
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Thanks Stephan,

I used search *.dwg & found the files (5000 of them). I will now make a habit to back them up regularly.

Paul Canumay from Benicia, California

 
Posted : October 20, 2012 6:53 pm
(@dave-lindell)
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22 minutes!

It took 22 minutes to find an answer on this board!

Top that, anybody.

This place is great with or without P&R.

 
Posted : October 20, 2012 7:30 pm
(@holy-cow)
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22 minutes!

Not sure if I'm allowed to say this anymore but here goes: AMEN!

 
Posted : October 20, 2012 8:17 pm