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[Ben Hest <bombledmonk@xxxxxxxxx>]

I haven't looked at exactly what's going on during the conversion, but
would it make sense to provide for a special pre-conversion backup file of
the schematic when the remapping process happens?

On Wed, Nov 22, 2017 at 3:51 PM, Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> 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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-Ben