This is not a common use case, still it's important: When KLayout writes a file, it will first rename any existing file, then write the file and only after this was successful, it will remove the original file. This prevents data loss on network problems for example.
This scheme does not work well with relative paths such as "x/y" (x is a directory). You will see warnings like these:
Could not create backup file: unable to rename original file 'x/y' to backup file
This is not a common use case, still it's important: When KLayout writes a file, it will first rename any existing file, then write the file and only after this was successful, it will remove the original file. This prevents data loss on network problems for example.
This scheme does not work well with relative paths such as "x/y" (x is a directory). You will see warnings like these: