Drawing Recovery Manager AutoCAD 2025 (99% Work) March 2025

Good morning, guys. Today we are learning about drawing Recovery Manager AutoCAD, how to recover an unsaved Drawing in CAD, how to open the Recovery tab in AutoCAD, and how the CAD drawing Recovery Manager is not working.

How To Open the Drawing Recovery Manager?

Drawing recovery manager AutoCAD uses to access “Recoverable Drawings” after a program or system failure.

To open the Drawing recovery manager in AutoCAD, follow these simple steps.

1. Click the “Application menu”

2. Then Go to “Drawing Utilities 

3. Open the “Drawing Recovery Manager“. 

For AutoCAD, float over the down arrow to look to the lower part of the menu.

For AutoCAD LT, enter DRAWINGRECOVERY at the Command prompt.

Keep Note: Drawing documents that can be reestablished from a program or framework disappointment are recorded under the heading, Backup Files.

Know how to recover an unsaved Drawing in AutoCAD?

The autosave file (SV$) is by default stored in the Temp folder for the current Windows user. 

Autosave files will be the most recent (Automatically 10 minutes old by default).

To recover this autosave file follow the simple steps below:

• First of all, open the “Autosave” folder.
  1. For Windows: By default, it is in the Temp folder. You can open it by typing %tmp% into the Start menu.
  2. For macOS: By default, it is in /Users/username/Documents/Autodesk/Autosave.
• Look for a file with the same name as the one to recover, a time stamp code, and an SV$ extension.
• Then change the SV$ extension to DWG.
• In the last open the file in AutoCAD.

How to Autosave a Drawing Automatically in AutoCAD?

From the options dialog box, you can disable & enable or change the frequency of the “Automatic Save” setting.

1. First of all, right-click on the drawing area and select “Options”.
2. After that, on the Open & Save tab. Please note that for the File Safety Precautions, you must select the “Automatic Save check box.
3. In the end, the procedure put a number in Minutes Between AutoSaves.

Read More: Introduction to AutoCAD. and How to use the AutoCAD command line.

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