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Subject: Re: [geda-user] gschem edits vanishing
From: Peter Clifton <pcjc2 AT cam DOT ac DOT uk>
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Date: Sun, 22 Mar 2015 20:21:15 +0000
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On Sat, 2015-03-21 at 07:08 -0500, David W. Schultz wrote:
> This has become annoying enough to warrant a post here.
> 
> I am working on a project and after completing the layout in pcb I am
> tweaking the design and layout. I was starting the task of verifying
> device pinouts and such when I noticed that some changes had simply
> vanished.
> 
> I had added another bypass capacitor and changed the size of a few other
> caps. The changes were saved and imported to pcb. But today that
> capacitor has vanished from the schematic and the footprints have
> changed back. The pcb layout still shows the changes but gschem has
> forgotten them.
> 
> This happened once before but I can't recall the details. At the time I
> thought it might just be me.


Sounds like a mistake I occasionally make... have two copies of the
schematic open, edit in one, then at some point later, pick up the wrong
(outdated) copy, and hit save.

gschem's file format is very very simple, so the behaviour you describe
I think will turn out to be due to a mistake such as I described above,
or some inadvertent copying of an out of date backup file.


Peter

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Peter Clifton <peter DOT clifton AT clifton-electronics DOT co DOT uk>

Clifton Electronics