Re: Orcad is a total piece of dog crap!

Guy Macon wrote:
Joerg wrote:

Just read some CAD NG's for the various programs. Almost every day not assuming operator error costs dearly. Today's case: Someone upgraded to Eagle 5.0 but then decided 4.16 was better. Unfortunately he had touched his custom library with 5.0 and saved, probably realizing the millisecond he hit "save" what he'd done. No backup. So I suggested a trick to get it back but since I did not upgrade I don't know whether it'll save his day.

Now had Eagle stored umpteen backup files like it does for schematics and layouts this might have been prevented. Unless he saved one too many times, that is.

I save the entire state of the operating system and all applications (very easy when you work inside a VMWare virtual machine) every time I take a break and right before doing anything risky like upgrading.
Any saving that the application does is just extra insurance. With
today's large hard disks and fast processors, there is no excuse for
not being able to recover from any hardware or software failure without losing moree than an hour or two of work.


Come to think of it, I believe I never lost more than 15 minutes of real work and I had numerous hard drives perform that spectacular final screech-clunk. Since some of those were on laptops I ended up losing more time because I had to find and drive to the next contract repair shop.

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