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[Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>]

It already does that.  The schematic is back up to it's normal backup
file name.  It doesn't back up the project file which I need do need to add.

On 11/22/2017 4:57 PM, Ben Hest wrote:
> 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
> <mailto: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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