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[Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 11/22/2017 4:46 PM, hauptmech wrote:
> On 23/11/17 07:03, Julius Schmidt wrote:
>> On Wed, 22 Nov 2017, Andy Peters wrote:
>>
>>> This “touching” of projects occurs with more applications than I can
>>> count. For example: every time I want to view a completed Altium
>>> project and I change layer visibility, Altium marks the layout as
>>> modified. It asks me if I want to save the file before closing the
>>> application.
>>> The solution I’ve found is: let the tool do whatever it wants to do,
>>> then simply don’t save the files after you’re doing viewing them. At
>>> the very least, make a copy of the project before viewing. My
>>> projects are in a Subversion repository, so it’s a simple matter of
>>> checking out a new working copy, and then deleting the working copy
>>> when I’m done.
>>
>> The difference is that, presumably, Altium does not modify the files
>> on disk if you do not save.
>>
>> This is really my core complaint, I don't expect kicad to be able to
>> modify old projects and save back into the old format.
>>
>> I do expect it to be able to open them without damaging the files.
> 
> I strongly agree with julius here.
> 
> Not everyone wants to (or has admin ability to) migrate their workflow
> to the newest version of any software. Those of us that collaborate with
> these people maintain multiple versions of software X to handle this.
> Opening the wrong project with the wrong software version is a common
> accident in these situations.
> 
> Long story short, an intentional migration of files from one version to
> another is fine but changing files to a different format/version on load
> in the background is not cool.

It does change anything if you don't remap so I fail to see the issue.
However, if you add any symbols from the symbol library table (which is
your only option now), then you will introduced the new symbol linking
method along with the old broken list lookup method.  You can still view
your old schematics without changing them.  Editing them brings the new
symbol library table into play.

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