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As I just lost a good few hours of good code I thought best to resolve by asking.

Surely this should work by default without manual amendment so assuming I am not doing something correctly or I forgot to amend some setting when installing. Basically this is what happens. I choose "Import Project", I browse and select one of the CC3200 SDK example folders residing in my TI main folder. I tick both tickbox options "auto import referenced projects..." and "copy projects into workspace". I then get a list of invalid project path warnings. Why?? Please help as want to avoid doing what I did previously as I will now explain.

At first I thought instead of resolving workspace path issue I would save time by just amending actual example in TI CC3200 SDK folder, and then at some stage copy files across. Of course as I am learning I soon needed to backtrack as made mistakes with coding in original folder. So wanted to keep amended code with errors. So I right clicked on project folder in CCS project explorer and selected copy (as wanted to keep this amended code) and then click paste and it created for me a "copy of ..." in project explorer. I checked folder properties and under resource it said location of this new project was in my workspace (I ignored path warnings). Little did I realise that all the files within this folder were still linked to the original CC3200 SDK folder (I only now can see that).

So when I reinstalled the CC3200 SDK to get clean copies of examples I also lost the "copy of" work as all I had was a workspace folder and not actual files within that folder. Live and learn as they say :-(

Just to answer the question myself now that I have done more reading and gone over what I had read before (amazing what you miss first time).

Seems that this project file link issue is well documented and requires a certain type of work method and perspective about what the CCS IDE is all about (takes a few days to finally step out and decide to bring in those favourite eclipse marketplace productivity tools into this IDE). For future reference document that I found quite informative was:

http://processors.wiki.ti.com/index.php/Projects_and_Build_Handbook_for_CCS

I am by no means an expert but thought to share these (random) steps for others who like me are working with CCS for the first time.

Learnt the hard way in my rush to get going with the challenge but it now appears that a little more prep and priming is needed to get to know CCS. As such it is well worth the time to set up a repository or backup system on CCS. From what I saw it looks like CCS already has the "git" repository capability. Not sure if you need it but I downloaded git file management package first as this handles all the unique file management searches etc (http://git-scm.com/). I then used this to create my git folder of choice on my system through the git GUI (on windows) as it also creates the required .git file.

Then back to CCS. In top right hand corner of CCS you click on Open Perspective (also available through main menu: windows | open perspective | other) and select Git Repository Exploring. Here I selected "Add an Existing local Git Repository" as I had already created a new local git repository through "git GUI". Just browse and select required folder.

Then when you have created or imported a project folder for your code you just right click on the folder in Project Explorer and select Team | Share Project. Here you will have "Git" as an option. Select this and click next. Choose repository folder. You also have option to create a sub folder etc.

That should then allow you to "clone" and link or backup projects to the repository. There are also online options too which you can link to your local git repository. I tend to use https://bitbucket.org/ You have to sign up etc. Plenty help files available.

Maybe others can share tips too as I am sure this may not be very well explained or may have missed key points in explanation.

I will try to follow your example as I get into using the code composer software.

You are right, there are a lot of options to explore, but I will just try to get proficient enough to do the challenge.

Time will tell to see if I can learn enough in time.

DAB

So after adding all these repository features, which is really not necessary when experimenting and learning on ones own, I discovered the handiest feature on CSS yet!

This is the "history" tab which relates to any file you edit and save (it is found in bottom right quadrant). Gives you a list of each saved event. You can then back track with ease by clicking on a previous saved time.

Somewhere through my rumbling through the TI website info I found a MS Powerpoint file named "CCSv6-TipsAndTricks" which gave me the insight.

So after adding all these repository features, which is really not necessary when experimenting and learning on ones own, I discovered the handiest feature on CSS yet!

This is the "history" tab which relates to any file you edit and save (it is found in bottom right quadrant). Gives you a list of each saved event. You can then back track with ease by clicking on a previous saved time.

Somewhere through my rumbling through the TI website info I found a MS Powerpoint file named "CCSv6-TipsAndTricks" which gave me the insight.