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I’m fairly new to Kicad.? I am using Kicad V5.1.9 on Windows 10.? At the moment there are 5 files (file.pr) in File Explorer that show 0KB and I did something that caused the files to be lost.? How can I delete the dead .PR project files from the File Explorer.? The files were for test only, so I don’t care if they are lost forever but I don’t know what I did to lose them.

Thanks to anyone for help.???? Jeff miller

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On Fri, 2022-04-29 at 10:31 -0700, Jeff Miller via groups.io wrote:
I’m fairly new to Kicad.? I am using Kicad V5.1.9 on Windows 10.? At the moment there are 5 files (file.pr) in File Explorer that show 0KB and I did something that caused the files to be lost.? How can I delete the dead .PR project files from the File Explorer.? The files were for test only, so I don’t care if they are lost forever but I don’t know what I did to lose them.
Do you mean files like "file.pro"?

Why can't you just delete them like any other file? In Windows Explorer, give them focus, then press the [Delete] key, or right-click > Delete. If these files are in a directory with nothing else, delete the directory by the same method.

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Tony
 

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Thanks Tony. I’ve tried that.? In File Explorer…..Under “recent files”? for example: NAME: LOW PASS FILTER (with KiCad logo)? TYPE: KiCad Project? ??Size: 0KB? If I right click on a file, a number of options come up with no option to delete.

I think in the KiCad program there is a file that holds all the .pro files and that is what I need to find.

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Thanks again Tony

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From: Tony Casey
Sent: Friday, April 29, 2022 4:27 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [kicad-users] Dead Kicad projects

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On Fri, 2022-04-29 at 10:31 -0700, Jeff Miller via groups.io wrote:

I’m fairly new to Kicad.? I am using Kicad V5.1.9 on Windows 10.? At the moment there are 5 files (file.pr) in File Explorer that show 0KB and I did something that caused the files to be lost.? How can I delete the dead .PR project files from the File Explorer.? The files were for test only, so I don’t care if they are lost forever but I don’t know what I did to lose them.

Do you mean files like "file.pro"?

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Why can't you just delete them like any other file? In Windows Explorer, give them focus, then press the [Delete] key, or right-click > Delete. If these files are in a directory with nothing else, delete the directory by the same method.

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Regards,

Tony

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On Fri, 2022-04-29 at 19:03 -0700, Jeff Miller via groups.io wrote:

Thanks Tony. I’ve tried that.? In File Explorer…..Under “recent files”? for example: NAME: LOW PASS FILTER (with KiCad logo)? TYPE: KiCad Project? ??Size: 0KB? If I right click on a file, a number of options come up with no option to delete.

I think in the KiCad program there is a file that holds all the .pro files and that is what I need to find.

Just because you see something listed in "Recent files", doesn't mean it actually exists. That's just a separate list of shortcuts. The existence of a shortcut doesn't necessarily mean the target file still exists. Windows sometimes loses track of files and even folders, depending on what you did with them.

With "Recent files" listed, right-click on one of the KiCad .pro files in the list and select the option "Open file location". When that folder opens, is the file there? If it is, it is there that you can delete it, not in the "Recent files" list. The .pro is just a project profile file, it doesn't contain the actual design data, that's in the other files in the same folder. If you want to delete the entire project, you should delete the folder the files are in.

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Regards,
Tony
 

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Thanks Tony . . . got it nailed?
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On Apr 30, 2022, at 1:43 AM, Tony Casey <tony@...> wrote:

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On Fri, 2022-04-29 at 19:03 -0700, Jeff Miller via groups.io wrote:

Thanks Tony. I’ve tried that.? In File Explorer…..Under “recent files”? for example: NAME: LOW PASS FILTER (with KiCad logo)? TYPE: KiCad Project? ??Size: 0KB? If I right click on a file, a number of options come up with no option to delete.

I think in the KiCad program there is a file that holds all the .pro files and that is what I need to find.

Just because you see something listed in "Recent files", doesn't mean it actually exists. That's just a separate list of shortcuts. The existence of a shortcut doesn't necessarily mean the target file still exists. Windows sometimes loses track of files and even folders, depending on what you did with them.

With "Recent files" listed, right-click on one of the KiCad .pro files in the list and select the option "Open file location". When that folder opens, is the file there? If it is, it is there that you can delete it, not in the "Recent files" list. The .pro is just a project profile file, it doesn't contain the actual design data, that's in the other files in the same folder. If you want to delete the entire project, you should delete the folder the files are in.

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Regards,
Tony

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