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If you import a project that is already present in your cadett ELSA installation, you are in a potential "over-write situation", which could be somewhat dangerous.
When you validate such a project, you will be informed about the situation, like described in the Validating status sub-topic.
When starting an import, where on or many of the selected projects will over-write existing project, a dialogue box like shown in the figure below, will inform you about that.
Figure 190: When importing a project that already exists, a dialogue box like the one shown here, will be displayed.
If this was due to a mistake, you can click the No button. The entire import process will then be aborted. You can then rectify anything that need rectification, before you resume the import process by clicking the Import (load) selected projects button again.
If you really want to over-write the existing versions of the projects, you can click the Yes button.
When over-writing a project in this way, the entire content of the project will be replaced, not only single drawing sheets. In principle, the result is the same as if you deleted the project entirely and then imported it. To avoid loss of data, a backup is therefore created automatically, before the project is over-written. If you would regret this operation, you therefore have a way of restoring the content of the project. The backup itself is an EZP file, which is imported the same way as other EZP files. The backup is placed in a sub-directory of the SOURCE directory, named BACKUPS. Each time a backup is made, a separate sub-directory of the BACKUPS directory is created, and the EZP file is placed there. The name of that sub-directory is made up of date and time for when the backup was created.
Example:
C:\PROJ\TEST1\BACKUPS\20210827144321\TEST1.EZP
The sub-directory name "20210827144321" should be interpreted like this:
2021-08-27 14.43.21
That is August 27th 2021 at 21 seconds after 2.43 p.m.