Saving .dgn file problem

Hello Oteep,

you can go to Workspace > Preferences > Operation > and turn on the setting 'Automatically Save Design Changes' - then it automatically saves changes to the DGN file and the dialog does not appear anymore when you exit MicroStation.

Regards,
Anu

Are you using any applications with MicroStation V8i SS2?

Unknown said:

Hello Anu, thank you for your response. I did your suggestions but still the same dialog box still appear. I think theres more settings needed to set-up to protect my file from unintentional destruction.

Regards,

Oteep

If this file is very important like a master ref file and only changes occasionally  you should turn on History feature secondly  it should be backed up often  especially before editing.. it is an old file with some legacy data and features..

I suggest you make  new  version from clean seed file ref attach the original and  copy through all the data , then  use the  compress all options  and then verify repair feature these 3 steps get rid of most problem objects that may have  crept through and started corruption..

Then after all this enable the history option on master files is just good work practice...

Other option also a good work flow is to make a BAK file or  backup of the file before you edit it. or in between big  changes but the  settings of autosave in your prefs is a must have...note that hind sight is great and easy for me to say you should do this or that  as I have lost  stuff too because I didnt do all the things I recommened..

BTW in one  place I worked at  if you opened a dgn say at 9amm and worked solidly on it without  getting out of that  file say until 11 am making lots of changes and additions if the microstation crashed or locked up froze etc  for what ever reason I would  loose everything I had done for the 
ENTIRE session in 25 years of using ustn I never experienced this anywhere else, its like the server didnt  write to disk and had some sort of giant cache or virtual drive and  wrote it to hard drive after you closed the file... it didnt happen if I copied the file to my c drive.... and copied back to network later.. I never  got to the bottom of it  and nobody to date has ever been able to explain it...

I always promoted ustn as a dynamic write/ saving  cad package  and was better over acad in that respect that you cant loose everything in a session only the last one or to actions or elements that either contributed to the crash or during the crash....maybe thats whats happening at  your end too? talk to your IT guys ..