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 <stambau...@gmail.com > <mailto:stambau...@gmail.com>> 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. > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > <https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers> > > Post to : kicad-developers@lists.launchpad.net > <mailto:kicad-developers@lists.launchpad.net> > > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > <https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers> > > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > <https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp> > > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > <https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers> > Post to : kicad-developers@lists.launchpad.net > <mailto:kicad-developers@lists.launchpad.net> > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > <https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers> > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > <https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp> > > > > > -- > > -Ben _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers Post to : kicad-developers@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp