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Recover footprint(.DRA) files from .BRD file

Hello everyone,

I'm working on a new design which needs some footprints made for some connectors. The previous engineer used this same connector on some other boards and I am hoping to reuse the footprints he made. I have the board file and schematic that uses these connectors but I can't find the footprint files themselves. Is there a way to recover these files from the .brd file or the .dsn file?

Thank you!

KoryMJ over 10 years ago

File > Export > Libraries...
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D Campbell over 10 years ago

Perfect! Thank you!
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veronana over 8 years ago

Indeed the recycle bin, and using Windows Explorer to look in folders; the programs you used are not designed to search for files; especially programs like Elements, which uses a catalog is not what you need now. Moving files confuses PS Elements organiser enough to make it seem like you lost files, while they're actually there. When things go wrong, use the basic tools provided in Windows itself (explorer, search).
For file recovery programs, I've use Software for Recovering Deleted Files on a few occassions; it's free and it works as good as can be expected. The main thing is to stop using the external hard disk until you use this tool, and avoid writing any files to it.
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