Mr. Wilson,
Allow me to answer in person as I was meeting a deadline
and couldn't respond to your posting immediately.
> On 02:06 PM 23/10/2001 -0400, M. Wahab said:
> >Hi,
> >
> > I was updating from a pcb library a footprint of
> >a BGA component, however, the component disappeared
> >completely.
>
> This sounds odd. Was there anything unusual about the footprint? How did
> you do the update, by pressing Update PCB from within the PCBLIb editor?
That's what I did
>
> If you produce a netlist or a component report is the component designator
> still listed? Can you jump to the component designator (with J-C)?
I tried JC it didn't find it
>
> >What went wrong? is there anyway to recover? It doesn't accept
> >undo, and it's very difficult to position a new BGA footprint
> >in place of the disappeared one. Back up is affected as well.
>
> If your backups are affected then I assume you are not using the auto-save
> server to regularly save open files? What about the backed up DDB (*.DBK
> is it)? here are at least three forms of backups produced by Protel
> (including the auto-saved files) - have you checked all of these?
I panicked when this happened and I saved more than twice wich made the
back up
also unusefull.
However, I managed to place it in its position again by the tips I got.
Thanks a lot
M. Wahab
>
> Older versions of the file? Your regular back-ups?
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