my computer got infected and in repairing it had to back up my files, clean the hard drive and reload the files.
in the process some of my autocad dwg files have been corrupted/ damaged. when i do a search of my hard drive, these files show up but when i click to open them i get a message reading
:"the drive or network connection the shortcut 'SITE.dwg.lnk' refers to is unavailable ..."
anyone knows how i can recover these dwg files
You can try searching for that specific file name. If you can only find that shortcut, it may be gone. You might also search for the .bak copy of the file, (e.g. drawing.bak) and rename it drawing.dwg. If the original is gone, that might be the most you're going to get.
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RECOVERING DWG FILE
my computer got infected and in repairing it had to back up my files, clean the hard drive and reload the files.
in the process some of my autocad dwg files have been corrupted/ damaged. when i do a search of my hard drive, these files show up but when i click to open them i get a message reading
:"the drive or network connection the shortcut 'SITE.dwg.lnk' refers to is unavailable ..."
anyone knows how i can recover these dwg files
your comments and suggestions are appreciated
I might be wrong about this but I have a bad feeling that the .lnk file is actually a shortcut - not the drawing file.
so how i do find the dwg file to see if it is recoverable
thanks
You can try searching for that specific file name. If you can only find that shortcut, it may be gone. You might also search for the .bak copy of the file, (e.g. drawing.bak) and rename it drawing.dwg. If the original is gone, that might be the most you're going to get.
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