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Date: Wed, 01 May 2013 20:05:30 -0400
From: Dave McGuire <mcguire AT neurotica DOT com>
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Subject: [geda-user] PCB file corrupt?  Need help
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  Hi folks.  I ended up with a situation in which I logged out of my
desktop machine and I hadn't saved my PCB file.  When I ran PCB on the
file, I expected to find it in its last known state.  It wasn't,
however...to my horror, the editing window came up completely blank.  It
saved a file with a hyphen at the end of the filename.  That one is
blank too.  In fact, the only difference between these two is the saved
cursor position.

  A cursory glance at the .pcb file doesn't turn up anything immediately
obvious.

  There were a lot of changes between my last backup and this (as of the
last save) version, and it would be pretty catastrophic to lose them.

  I am in a bit of a panic.  Can anyone help?

             Thanks,
             -Dave

-- 
Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA