Hello Beta Testers!

For SolidWorks 2012 we made many under the hood improvements to the Auto Recovery functionality. We would like to get some feedback to see if we reached our goals of making this option more robust and reliable.

Highlights

1. Removed the option to save an auto recovery document based on number of changes
2. Fixed issues that cause "Auto recover of" to get prepended to the file name multiple times
3. Improved the auto recover timer to be more accurate and handle all open documents properly
4. New .swar extension so that we can easily identify auto recovery documents

A simple Auto Recovery test

1. Go to Tools->Options and turn on auto recovery
2. Set the time out to 5 minutes
3. Work for several minutes creating stuff or editing a file
4. Open Task Manager and kill SolidWorks after 5 or more minutes.
5. Restart SolidWorks and you shuold see the SolidWorks Recovery pane with your last set of saved documents available.

Please respond back to this thread with any comments you have good or bad and of course open an SR if you find any bugs so you can claim your beta points!