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Expert: - 1/6/2006


Question
I have Land Desktop and Autodesk Civil 3D open at the same time.
When I save on Land Desktop I do not always get a new .bak file save.

Is this normal, or do we have a problem here?

If we have a problem, how can we resolve it.

My drawing in land desktop keeps locking up or crashing and I am not able to recover work because I don't have files to retreive that are current. Do you have some sugesstions?


We are using AutoDesk Land Desktop 2006  

Answer
Since LDD is an AutoCAD vertical product, you should be able to check this in OPTIONS just like AutoCAD.  

So type:
_OPTIONS

Click on the "Open and Save" tab

Look in the File Safety Precautions box

Make sure that "Create backup copy with each save" is checked.

Click on OK.

That should do it
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