Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2015 21:54:39 +0300
From: Vladimir Zhbanov <vzhbanov AT gmail DOT com>
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Subject: Re: [geda-user] gschem edits vanishing
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On Sun, Mar 22, 2015 at 08:21:15PM +0000, Peter Clifton wrote:
> 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 (outdated) copy, and hit save.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 or some inadvertent copying of an out of date backup file.

... and using a CMS helps to avoid such mistakes.

Cheers,
  Vladimir