Symbol Update Report

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Hi Guys. 
 Sorry, I haven't found any related topic to my problem, so I'll ask here: I work on multiple projects in parallel. Let's assume I changed some packyge symbols in the library while working on project A. If I resume to work on project B after some time, I first want to update all the package symbols to be up-to-date with the ones in the symbol library. There are two problems now: First, I don't want to update all package symbols in one go because I can't zoom in on all the footprint of the board at the same time and "see" what's happening during the update. Second, I don't want to update each package symbol separately because with a lot of footprints this would take forever. But, in the end there are a lot of package symbols which haven't changed at all anyway. 
 Is there a way to find out which package symbols "need" to be updated or which symbols used on the board are identical to the ones in the symbol library? Either before or during symbol update? 
 Cheers, 
 Martin

JuanCR · Answer

Hi Martin, 
 
 There is something called Symbol Revision Manager but it will come as an extra cost and leverages Pulse to do the revision check. Other than that, there is just the option to update all your symbols. There is a quicker solution that I can propose as a workaround. If you make a copy of your project and update all your symbols in it. The log file that is automatically generated after the update will have the names of all the parts that "needed" to be updated. I hope this works for you.

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