No backup or autosave or anything. Yes dumb move on my part and I am now paying the price for it.
Now that I slept on it (and trust me I had a HARD time sleeping), I'm just going to redo the layout. I don't think I'll take me two weeks this time because part of it was the floor planning and learning the ins and outs of pcb. Also for my next project I wanted to try a more modular design (seperate layout blocks combined into one). I guess this gives me the opprotuntiy to try it out now. On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 8:58 AM, John Griessen <[email protected]> wrote: > Anthony Shanks wrote: >> I just screwed up big time and accidently overwrote a completeled >> layout > > > Do you still have a .pcb- file? > > If you really overwrote it and the recent save too, well... > > The easy way to handle saving your layout efforts is to > make a git repository of it and check in often with tag names > for stages of work progress. Then you can go back to a place > you tried something that ended up not compact, or if you wipe the directory, > and it's all easy and 4 seconds to do. > > All I've heard about recreating from existing layout is to use the scaled > photo in the background method. I think it needs a .png of the gerber first. > > John > > > _______________________________________________ > geda-user mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user > _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list [email protected] http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user
