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Stop Capture 17.4 creating 'PSiceFiles' folders

Neil1234
Neil1234 over 2 years ago

Ever since we updated OrCAD Capture from 17.2 to 17.4, it keeps creating folders in the file directories called 'file-name-PSiceFiles'.

This is annoying since 1) 17.2 didn't do this, and 2) we don't have a PSpice licence. All the schematics are opened and saved as schematics only. All the PSpiceFiles folders it creates are empty.

I looked through the settings, preferences and extended preferences but can't find anything to stop this behaviour.

Here is our library folder, now littered with useless extra sub-folders.

Is there any way to stop this? Or is this another 'feature' of 17.4 we'll have to live with?

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    0 xrwright over 1 year ago

    I hate the fact that it's now scouring the allegro folder and loading any .brd file it sees into this structure. We have copies and backups and other stage save offs that may or may not be relevant any more. It's annoying to say the least. My favourite is that with autosave, it names the old board xxx.brd,1 and Capture constantly asks me to select a file type to associate it to when I reopen the project!! It's making the backup and naming the file and yet it can't figure this out.

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    0 xrwright over 1 year ago

    I hate the fact that it's now scouring the allegro folder and loading any .brd file it sees into this structure. We have copies and backups and other stage save offs that may or may not be relevant any more. It's annoying to say the least. My favourite is that with autosave, it names the old board xxx.brd,1 and Capture constantly asks me to select a file type to associate it to when I reopen the project!! It's making the backup and naming the file and yet it can't figure this out.

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