AutoCAD 2002: the file of drawing is damaged.

[magnusjohannesson]

Help!! I have AutoCAD 2002. I worked on the project of 2 weeks. I kept on a flash card. After I pulled out from a computer, I showed to the customer. when again I tried to open houses, writes that the file of drawing is damaged. How to restore?

[numerobis]

But you didn't save it at the customers computer with a newer ACAD?

If not, you should first look for a .sv$ file with the same name to save it. (windows search *.sv$ or the whole name - should be located in the temp folder)

If the date of the autosave file is ok you can rename it to .dwg and use it.

If not you can manually try the recovery tool on your dwg file: "File>Drawing Utilities>Recover"

And then there should be still the older .bak file in your project folder.

Edited February 15, 2015 by numerobis

[normanwalsh]

In the program click on File - select Utilities and click Recover. Or at the command prompt, enter code _.RECOVER. The file must be restored! In that case, if the standard restore does not help, then take advantage of DWG Recovery Kit. Just in case here is the link

http://www.all-recovery-inc.com/#!/dwg

You can read discussion of this subject at this forum.

http://www.filerepairforum.com/forum/cad-tools/cad-tools-aa/dwg/1370-autocad-writes-that-the-file-is-damaged

[normanwalsh]

In the program click on File - select Utilities and click Recover. Or at the command prompt, enter code _.RECOVER. The file must be restored! In that case, if the standard restore does not help, then take advantage of DWG Recovery Kit. Just in case here is the link

http://www.all-recovery-inc.com/#!/dwg