Autosave and Forced Save

I would like some advice on Autosave and Save.

My supervisor wants all the Autosave disabled.  I am not sure I want to do that.

What is being ask is to allow a user to open a file but not to take ownership of it when they close it unless they do a "Forced" save.

We have engineers that will open a file to look at it and when they finish they will close it.  My guess is that  "Autosave" is then giving them the ownership of the file. My supervisor does not want that to happen.

What we want is to only have the file "Save" when it closes by forcing the file to request a "SAVE" by a dialog box when closing it.

I have set all pc's to "Auto-save Design Changes" as they are made in Preferences, but now have that turned off.

I have the "Save Settings on Exit" selected.

What they want is to essentially mimic AutoCAD that demands you save before you exit or nothing is saved.

What would be the impact of doing this in the way described?

If we do this will the autosave function have to be disabled so no work is automatically saved as it is done?

  • Hi Brian

    We normally see this request when a user migrates from ACAD to MicroStation i.e. it scares them that it autosaves.  From experience this is normally a short term concern.

    However, if they are sure they want this option then they can add the following configuration variable to their UCF file

    NOTE this is for CONNECT.  The UCF files are stored in;  C:\Users\[username]\AppData\Local\Bentley\PowerDraft\10.0.0\prefs

    MS_DGNAUTOSAVE = 0

    HTH

    Ian 

  • If I remember correct, even with MS_DGNAUTOSAVE=0 the file is taken ownership. so normally the date of the file is updated.

    That is what the AutoCAD users do not want. They want to get out of the file unchanged, Content and date.

    But MicroStation wont allow this. The MS_READONLY prevents the editing of the file altogether.

    I have Bentley View installed as the application that is opened first on doubleclicking a file. Then I can view it "unharmed"

    And to edit the file I have to rightclick "Open with …"

    The "open Readonly" can be easily overlooked...