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corrupted files from v5 to v6?

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I recently upgraded from Eagle v5.12 to v6.5.  If I use v6.5 to open a board file created in v5.x, it gets corrupted and I no longer have forward-backward annotation.  I did no editing, just reviewing.  Is there a way to fix this?  Has this been reported before?  Are there any other considerations involved in an upgrade?

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    What do you mean by corrupted?  Is the file un-readable?  Does it contain garbage?  Or do you mean it doesn't pass ERC/DRC any more?  Cadsoft added some stricter checking in version 6.5, so some things that worked without error in 5.12 now get flagged.  I ran into this when I had different library names in the schematic and the board.  Each was valid by itself, but the latest versions of EAGLE check to make sure the names are the same in both the schematic and the board...

     

    If you run ERC, do you get errors?  What are they?

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    Chris Isaacson wrote on Mon, 30 June 2014 09:08

    I recently upgraded from Eagle v5.12 to v6.5.  If I use v6.5 to open

    a

    board file created in v5.x, it gets corrupted and I no longer have

    forward-backward annotation.  I did no editing, just reviewing.  Is

    there a way to fix this?  Has this been reported before?  Are there

    any

    other considerations involved in an upgrade?

     

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    The first thing to repeat here is that a v6 file cannot be read by v5 so if

    you open an v5 file and save it back to the same location, it will be a v6

    file and you now can't open it in v5. So work with copies, keeping v5 and

    v6 separate.

     

    v6 validates more than earlier versions and so v5 files may have content

    that causes v6 to throw an error whereas they work fine in v5.

     

    Normally, from the error that is reported, you can locate the error in the

    v6 file, which is in XML format, and correct it.

     

    Have a go and post details/files if you are still having issues you cannot

    resolve yourself.

     

    Warren

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