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Design Manager M1.4/M1.5: How do you move projects?


Record #2942

Product Family:  Software

Product Line:  M1 Graphical/General

Problem Title:
Design Manager M1.4/M1.5: How do you move projects?


Problem Description:
Keywords: move, projects

Urgency: Standard

General Description:
The Design Manager keeps an absolute path to projects.
If a user moves a project to a new location or drive,
how can the user inform the Design Manager of the
new location?


Solution 1:

This methodology applies to all platforms, although this example
uses Windows naming conventions.

Suppose all of the design files sub-directories were
moved from c:\old to d:\new.


1. Start the Design Manager.  If the last project used was moved the
project will fail to open, and the entry will be removed from the
registry and Most Recently Used (MRU) list.  If the last project used
was not moved, it will open.

2.  Select the File->Open Project.. menu item from the Design Manager
menu. In the dialog select the browse button to add the moved project.

3.  Browse for the project file, d:\new\xproj\<design>.xpj, in the
new working directory.	When a project is created the working directory
name is set to XPROJ by default.

4. During the loading of the project, the Design Manager will detect
that the top level input design netlist is not in the old location,
c:\old, and will prompt for the new location.  Select the input netlist
from d:\new. After this, all the versions and revisions will be retrieved.

  NOTE: If the top level input netlist in c:\old still exists the Design Manager

	will not prompt you for the new location and will still read the
	netlist in c:\old.  Temporarily rename or delete the netlist in
	c:\old, and  execute an implement or translate in the Design Manager or

	Flow Engine to get the Design Manager to prompt you for new location
	of the netlist.

5. If the tree view is not correctly updated with the all of the versions
and revisions, exit the Design Manager and restart the Design Manager.
The new project should come up with the correct tree view.




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