Net colors in project file are not backed up

[Jay1]

Linux Mint, v8.0.1

My pro / project files have net colors. Painstakingly set. Works fine. I had a crash and the project file needed to be re-created. Unfortunately discovered that the "net_colors": { JSON entry in the project file is never saved in the backups. All of my backup files for weeks show null for that entry.

Maybe there was a permissions issue with that file? I’m not sure, but if it could never write the net colors, it should never have come back after a reboot. So it was saving them at least somewhere, but my backups show nothing.

Is there somewhere else those could exist?

[baldengineer]

I checked one of my projects that uses colors. The net_colors field is null in the active project and the backup files.

Colors show up under net_settings then classes. Each netclass has an entry that includes the fields pcb_color and schematic_color.

For reference, here is Default and 5V Rail. The 5V Rail netclass is set to red. And those fields exist in both the active project and the backup files.

  "net_settings": {
    "classes": [
      {
        "bus_width": 12,
        "clearance": 0.2,
        "diff_pair_gap": 0.25,
        "diff_pair_via_gap": 0.25,
        "diff_pair_width": 0.2,
        "line_style": 0,
        "microvia_diameter": 0.3,
        "microvia_drill": 0.1,
        "name": "Default",
        "pcb_color": "rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.000)",
        "schematic_color": "rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.000)",
        "track_width": 0.2,
        "via_diameter": 0.6,
        "via_drill": 0.3,
        "wire_width": 6
      },
      {
        "bus_width": 12,
        "clearance": 0.2,
        "diff_pair_gap": 0.25,
        "diff_pair_via_gap": 0.25,
        "diff_pair_width": 0.2,
        "line_style": 0,
        "microvia_diameter": 0.3,
        "microvia_drill": 0.1,
        "name": "5V Rail",
        "pcb_color": "rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.000)",
        "schematic_color": "rgb(194, 0, 0)",
        "track_width": 0.2,
        "via_diameter": 0.6,
        "via_drill": 0.3,
        "wire_width": 6
      },