missing names / Metadata

Posted by Christoph Steinlehner at January 07. 2008

hi guys, I got another one: I moved a file on the filesystem and now all the metadata (names, value on resistors...) is missing. I attached a file, so you can see it for your own. But I moved files before and it did well, so maybe this isn't the issue at all. Greets Christoph

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lightballmixer_new.fzb (96.1 kB)

Re: missing names / Metadata

Posted by Christoph Steinlehner at January 07. 2008

And an addition, a bad one: Now every file I open doesn't have any names. I already downloaded fritzing again and open it in this version, same problem. What could have happend? Christoph

Re: missing names / Metadata

Posted by Christoph Steinlehner at January 07. 2008

so, I isolated the problem and even can you tell what is wrong. It has to do with moving files on the file-system. Inside your XML-Fritzing files there is on every part a href attribute, that points inside the Fritzing folder and some standard fzbs(?). If you move a file on the filesystem the href isn't right anymore. The files open and are displayed, but all the metadata get lost. I think that's a very big bug, because people can't exchange fzb files and you can't open a fzb anymore if you move it or the fritzing-installation on your filesystem. hope I helped a little bit to get a cool product

christoph

Re: missing names / Metadata

Posted by Zach Eveland at January 08. 2008

Thanks for this report. Fritzing stores sketch information in two XML files - *.fz is a high-level description of the circuit showing which parts are used and the wires between them. *.fzb is a more complete description of the parts and connections.

Both files are needed by Fritzing and you're right - *.fzb contains references to the specific location of the *.fz file. If one or both have been moved the connection breaks down.

Right now we need to keep the files separate, but we are looking at different ways to handle this - either by putting everything in a single folder that can be moved around the way Processing and Arduino do, by combinging the files, by creating some type of archive that contains both files, etc. We welcome any suggestions on how to approach this.

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missing names / Metadata