Corrupted project file?

I am having the same issue.   In my case it is a design created in Version 7.1, and I get the same errors if I try to open in either Version 7.1 or 7.5   I get similar warnings and errors for both the SCH and BRD files, line numbers are different buth they are both worried about an invalid/missing attribute.

Warning(s):

line 1285: invalid value '' for attribute 'name' in tag <signal>

Error:

line 1301, column 9: invalid/missing attribute 'name' in tag <signal>

Do I need to recreate the whole design from scratch, or can I salvage this?

Mark Sauerwald wrote on Thu, 07 January 2016 03:51

Do I need to recreate the whole design from scratch, or can I salvage

this?

Hi Mark,

Hopefully Warren's answer above should sort you out but just relating to

your final comment, it's always a good idea to keep backup's of earlier

version so if anything get's lost/corrupted you can always go to the last

backup. Since eagle now uses a text based rather than binary file format

you can do this nicely and track your changes with a version control

system. I use Git for all my projects and I check in regularly with a

description of exactly what I have changed so I can always go back and look

what I have done over the history of a design which can be really useful on

a big project with lots of changes. You then also have easy backups to

another machine or an off-site git server. You simply check in changes and

then push them to the remote location. Doing this means you'll never have

to ask the above question as you'll know you can always go back to the last

known good check in if something bad happens.

Best Regards,

Rachael

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Thank you for your advice Rachel and Warren for the suggestion.   I'll try the text editing suggestions out when I get home tonight - I use Eagle at home, and Altium at work, and there is always a transition period when I jump from one system to the other, but the text editing strategy looks like a good place to explore!   I was dreading having to redo this design from scratch, it is 10 sheets of schematic so it would have been some work!

At work, we use Perforce for version control and sharing - but I am not as diligent with my projects at home as I am at work.    I should look for a middle of the road solution and GIT looks interesting, I'll have to try that out.

Mark

On 07/01/16 17:06, Mark Sauerwald wrote:

At work, we use Perforce for version control and sharing - but I am not

as diligent with my projects at home as I am at work.    I should look

for a middle of the road solution and GIT looks interesting, I'll have

to try that out.

At work I have Visual Source (un)Safe inflicted on me but all my home

projects live in Subversion, at least partly because it's such a doddle

to administer.

Just to add a little, prompted by Rachael,s comment.

Eagle stores backups each time you save so the last of these may work for

you.

See the manual that explains the file naming of the saves and automatic

backups.

If you had done quite a bit of work since that last save maybe there's a

bit to much of a difference to use it and hence getting to work with the

text editor is the way to go.

What could be of value is, The backup may have exactly what you need to

repair the broken files so once you locate it, a simple cut and paste will

get you going and possibly the Schem and Board will be consistent.

Warren

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Just to add a little, prompted by Rachael,s comment.

Eagle stores backups each time you save so the last of these may work for

you.

See the manual that explains the file naming of the saves and automatic

backups.

If you had done quite a bit of work since that last save maybe there's a

bit to much of a difference to use it and hence getting to work with the

text editor is the way to go.

What could be of value is, The backup may have exactly what you need to

repair the broken files so once you locate it, a simple cut and paste will

get you going and possibly the Schem and Board will be consistent.

Warren

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