KiCad

Backup file naming

Bug #1500570 reported by xzcvczx on 2015-09-28

This bug affects 6 people

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	KiCad	Expired	Wishlist	auto-gitlab.com-kicad-code-kicad-- #1993

Bug Description

Currently backup files are all named completely different based on the source file

.sch -> .bak
.dcm -> .bck
.kicad_pcb -> .kicad_pcb-bak

to make it more clear which file is a backup of which should there not be a common suffix, this would also make it safer and easier to add to .gitignore than it is currently,

Related branches

lp:~stol/kicad/bug1500570

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Artsiom Shchatsko (cioma) wrote on 2015-09-29:

I'd suggest just adding ".bak" to a full file name, e.g.:

.sch -> .sch.bak
.dcm -> .dcm.bak
.kicad_pcb -> .kicad_pcb.bak
etc

Wayne Stambaugh (stambaughw) on 2015-09-29

Changed in kicad:
importance:	Undecided → Wishlist

Stefan (stol) on 2015-09-29

Changed in kicad:
assignee:	nobody → Stefan (stol)

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Stefan (stol) wrote on 2015-10-01:

This patch add to the files, .sch, .lib, .dcm and .kicad_pcb the suffix .bak as backups

It will also convert the "old" file format names into new file format (if they exist), for example,
If it founds a test.kicad_pcb-bak file this patch will rename it into test.kicad_pcb.bak

The patch will also ask the user if the user want to "recover" from test.kicad_pcb.bak if the test.kicad_pcb is missing

bzr push lp:~stol/kicad/bug1500570
Using default stacking branch /+branch-id/324654 at chroot-82379408:///~stol/kicad/
Created new stacked branch referring to /+branch-id/324654.

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Hildo Guillardi Júnior (hildogjr) wrote on 2017-11-16:

I know that this issue not affect directly the users but, standardization could help future issues to be solved and even the people that develop in Python using the Pcbnew library / file format language.
I agree with just add `.bak `at the end to all files.

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Jeff Young (jeyjey) wrote on 2018-07-01:

See also: https://bugs.launchpad.net/kicad/+bug/1550518

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KiCad Janitor (kicad-janitor) wrote on 2021-10-09:

KiCad bug tracker has moved to Gitlab. This report is now available here: https://gitlab.com/kicad/code/kicad/-/issues/1993