How about COPYing said footprints... 
good luck

On Wednesday 15 June 2005 12:59 am, Leo Potjewijd wrote:
> Hi.
>
> I could use some input: I'm (once again) banging against an impermeable
> wall of "Format %x invalid...." and as a result I can no longer synchronise
> Sch and Pcb (all I get is an exception error with that weird
> description)..... As usual the time pressure is huge, it should be ready at
> the end of the day.
>
> Bearing in mind that footprint names should not be longer than 14
> characters with no spaces or funny characters (although this problem has
> not bothered me until half a year ago) I want to clean up the footprint
> names. I'll even go so far as to make my libraries a 'proper' Ddb (still
> using the file system approach) to eliminate all problems related with
> that... But..... I have a large number of designs that USE those footprints
> with their not-so-good-for-too-long names.
>
> Changing the names in library is easy enough (my libraries are not that
> big) and even converting them to MSAccess format is not too difficuilt, but
> how do I prevent the existing designs from losing integrity when the used
> footprint names no longer exist?
>
>
> Leo Potjewijd
> hardware designer
> Integrated Engineering B.V.
>
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