Solid edge remove backup files

If you open the Solid Edge file, make various geometry changes, but have not saved the file the first time after initially opening, the file is not backed up as the original geometry is still available in the original file if the changes are not saved. Once the file is saved, then the backup timer is then started, and backups are then created from that point. Furthermore the reason why you do not see a backup file actually created every X minutes is that we attempt to apply some intelligence to the backup before saving.

If there have been no geometry changes made to the file in X minutes since the last save we do not automatically save another backup copy of the file overwriting the same already uniquely assigned backup file. We will only save every X minutes if there have been physical geometry changes made during that time.

Therefore simply setting this option, saving the working file and then waiting the X minutes for the next backup copy to be saved will not work as there are no geometry changes to backup. This is by design to reduce the amount of times we have to track and save out the backup file. There is no point saving a backup file every X minutes if Solid Edge has been sitting idle and no geometrical changes have been made to the file.

Otherwise you could potentially lose your last geometrical changes in the backup file i. I save my working file, make some geometry changes and then after X minutes my backup file is saved capturing the model in different geometrical state. I then go for a coffee break and Solid Edge is sitting idle for another X minutes. You then do not want Solid Edge automatically making another backup copy of no geometry changes after X minutes overwriting the previous backup containing geometry changes.

This is why you do not automatically see a backup copy created every X minutes. While working in the file and making changes, whenever you next save the file, the backup file is then automatically removed and the timer reset.

As explained above, until a geometry change is then detected a new backup file with then be created. Once you cleanly exit the working file the associated backup file is automatically removed. If you were to intentionally crash Solid Edge by terminating the edge. This then would allow you to recover "lost" work, which is your expectation. So, to your specific scenario, If you have enabled "Automatic Document Preservation" for every 60 minutes, using my above description, if your user is working in an assembly and then saves the assembly but does not exit the assembly, the automatic backup file is reset and the backup file on disk deleted.

If your engineer then goes to a meeting that lasts longer than 60 minutes, because Solid Edge has detected no changes in the assembly no new backup file is created.

Then your engineer returns to his desk and suddenly Solid Edge crashes corrupting the working file before any geometric changes have been made to the file. All of this can be easily tested by setting your Solid Edge Options to save every 1 minute then working through the scenario while monitoring your backup folder location in Windows Explorer. As you save your working file and make period geometric changes every few minutes to the file without saving you will see the files in Windows Explorer changing.

Then exit Solid Edge without saving since the last backup file was created and you will see your backup files automagically removed from Windows Explorer. Bottom line, "Automatic Document Preservation" functionality is intended to be a crash recovery option in the event of a Solid Edge crash such that any unsaved work is only lost to the point of the last backup file created.

If you save or cleanly exit Solid Edge the backup file is cleared or reset. In regards to what I think is your expectation of being able to create incremental backups in order to return to a previous state, obviously as outlined above, this is not how the "Automatic Document Preservation" functionality has currently been designed to work. There is already an existing ER requesting the functionality for true incremental time periodic backups.

I apologize for the lengthy explanation. Hopefully this better explains how "Automatic Document Preservation" functionality is intended to work as implemented today.

Topics Show Topics. Siemens Digital Industries Software. Search the Community. Sign in to ask the community. Close search. Solid Edge. You can search any folder, network drive, or managed library. You can search for documents using defined properties or a number of criteria, including mathematical operators and standard Boolean expressions. For a list of valid expressions, see Search criteria list. To learn more, see Searching for documents. When you first save a new document, Solid Edge provides a default name and folder location.

You can give the document a meaningful name and specify where you want to store the document on the disk.

You can quickly save changes to an open document by clicking Save on the Application menu. If you use the Save As command to save parts that are linked to an assembly, the saved-as copy of the part is not linked to the assembly.

You can set an option on the Save page of the Options dialog box to have Solid Edge prompt you to save all open documents. When this option is set and the time interval has expired, a dialog box is displayed when you select a new command. The dialog box prompts you to save all open documents. If you click Yes, the open documents are saved. If you click No, the time interval is restarted. This option does not automatically save your documents for you, create backup files, or interrupt you while you are using a command.

It waits for you to click a new command in Solid Edge before prompting you to save. This approach allows you to work in other applications without being interrupted, and prevents file corruption problems associated with automatic save options in other applications.

There are some commands that do not react to the reminder interval. Commands that work within another active command, such as the view manipulation commands, do not react to the reminder interval. To learn more about the types of files you can open, see Opening foreign files in Solid Edge. For some input formats, there are translation options you can set. For a list of the available translation-option dialog boxes, see Open command.

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