Hi,
I’m a newbie and in trying to clear out older versions of my project I seemed to clear out my latest version.
Everything I deleted is still in my recycle bin but I can’t figure out how to reconstruct the individual files to become a project again. I do Have the gerbers so I can make pcbs but I can’t bring up the project as before.
I think that if you simply copy all of those files into a desired folder, you ought to be able to launch the kicad_pro file to launch KiCad and you ought to be good to go…
To be careful, do not have any other files in that folder. Double click on the kicad_pro file after the files are copied. That should launch KiCad.
I JUST DOWNLOADED YOUR POSTED FILES AND IT WORKS
I see you increased your track width to 0.5 mm. That seems good.
*.kicad_pro is KiCad project file.
If you have it in any folder than in KiCad main application with File-Open Project… you can find that file and KiCad will open project.
If there are no the same name *.kicad_sch and *.kicad_pcb than when you try to open schematic or pcb KiCad will suggest to create new files, but if they are in the same folder they will be used.
I don’t know what *.kicad_prl is but I think it can be reconstructed by KiCad whenever needed (to start new design from previous I copy only 3 files changing their name).
The zip file is a zipped up set of Gerber files, I did not even open them.
I downloaded the “.kicad_pro”, “kicad_sch” and “kicad_pcb” files (Project, schematic and PCB), then opened the project, and from within the project manager opened the schematic and PCB, and it looks plausible to me.
