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[Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>]

Chris,

Is this patch good to go?  I'm having trouble keeping up with the patch
volume so I want to make sure before I commit it.

Thanks,

Wayne

On 6/18/2015 3:07 PM, Chris Pavlina wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> It's come to my attention that we have another old project compatibility 
> issue:
> 
> https://forum.kicad.info/t/exisiting-schematic-component-not-being-found-in-library-error/976
> 
> The behavior when loading a very old project with case-insensitive part 
> names isn't nice at all, there's no easy way to change them over. It 
> gives suggestions for new part names, but you still have to change them 
> one by one.
> 
> I adapted lib-cache-rescue into a more generic project-rescue, which can 
> handle multiple types of rescue cases, and added one for missing symbols 
> with differently cased versions available.
> 
> It looks roughly like this now (though I've changed the descriptive text 
> at the top since taking that screenshot):
> 
> http://misc.c4757p.com/newrescue.png
> 
> Please, as many people as possible, try this out.
> 
> --
> Chris
> 
> 
> 
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