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PCB Editor Immediately AutoSaving and Closing When Opening Design

melview1

I've got an installation of PCB Editor that will open a design, but then will immediately auto-save and close.  Immediately after loading the design, it says
Auto saving before quitting, please wait...." and then closes.  I don't see any error messages and it doesn't seem to be crashing.  It's just Auto-Saving.  An AUTOSAVE.BRD file is created.  Weirdly, if I go into User Preferences-->File_Management-->Autosave, the autosave option is not checked.

It happens on multiple designs, some that have previously worked.  It seems a bit random.  My workaround has been to keep opening other designs until I get one that stays up, then I can go to recently opened designs menu and open the previously shutting down design without issue.

This was happening on my v17.2 S001 installation, so yesterday, I updated to S038, hoping it would solve the problem.  The first design I opened had no issue, so I thought I was good to go.  However today, I tried to open that same design and it encountered this issue.  I then found a design that opened and used my workaround.  As a test, I closed the problem design and opened the one that just got me in again and that design encountered the issue.  I'm at a bit of a loss as to what's going on.  Does anyone have any suggestions or troubleshooting I can go through?

Thanks.

--Mark

  • steve

    Locate your HOME directory (so type %HOME% into the address bar of Windows explorer). In here is a pcbenv folder, rename this to pcbenv_old then try and run the tools again. if this solves your issue you will need to redefine your setup (so padpath, psmpath etc) and any shortcut keys you may have. If it doesn't post back

  • melview1
    in reply to steve

    Man you're good.

    I did as you described and my designs seem to open normal again.  Then I remembered I had added a skill from 2013, Logomaker, so I thought that may have something to do with it and I went back to the original pcbenv folder and designs are still opening fine.  Could that have reset something else?  Either way, I'll continue to monitor and post back if things go south again.

  • melview1
    in reply to steve

    It went south.  I was working on a design and closed PCB Editor in order to undo some work that ctrl-z couldn't undo.  When I reopened the file, it immediately closed.  I'll go back to your suggestion and see how that works.

  • melview1
    in reply to steve

    Moments after my last reply, it went south with the new pcbenv folder.  Any other suggestions?

  • mcatramb91
    in reply to melview1

    I know it is a little extreme, but could you try renaming the 17.2 folder (RMB > Rename) in the registry and restart the PCB Editor.  PCBENV Folder is not the only place were the configuration is stored, data is also in the Registry.  Renaming the folder will allow it to regenerate a clean registry folder.

    Worth a shot.

    Registry location: HKEY_CURRENT_USER \ SOFTWARE \ Cadence Design Systems \ 17.2

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