Is there a way to disable auto-recovery of DWG files?

Hi @stevenl​ thank you for your question. Do the corrupt DWGs appear any different in the folder to non-corrputed DWGs? Do they still open in AutoCAD?

Hi @daraghatsafe​, thank you for your reply. Most DWGs differ in size, a bit smaller. They do open in AutoCAD, also requiring recovery, but are also missing data.

To add some information. Up until the DWG is read/converted by FME (Server), we have no idea that the DWG is corrupt. Once the result leaves FME, we also have no idea that the DWG was corrupt, except for the logging. The logging, however, is not something that we (can) read in our processes.

So, it would be better if FME simply rejects the input and fails.

Hi @stevenl​ thanks for the extra info. We do have this article that goes into logging and using Python shutdown scripts, I have not done this myself but it may be a useful resource with a bit of tweaking for your process. https://community.safe.com/s/article/how-to-extract-and-use-log-information-in-workbenc

Thank you for this link @daraghatsafe​! This sentence from the article makes it very promising to me:

> A customer found that some of his Microstation DGN files had been truncated.

I was able to detect the recovery through the use of python scripts. Using the LogMessageStreamer transformer did not work for me, as it did not give the log entry stating it is recovering the DWG.

Thank you @daraghatsafe​!