Built Error on Cloned Project

General
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Using Au board with Labs and Lucid, I frequently use Clone Project to save something that works before continuing development with the cloned version. But the new cloned version frequently, but not always, gives me this error, even though the original version builds correctly without error:

Bin file (C:\Documents\FPGA\myProject\work\vivado\myProject\myProject.runs\ impl_1\au_top_0.bin) could not be found! The build probably failed.

When this happens, the only way around it I have found is the start a new project, and import all the files one at a time. Then it builds OK.

It is as though something didn’t work correctly during the Clone process. Does anyone know what is causing this and how to fix it?

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This is interesting. The cloning feature has some issues.

It also doesn’t close any open files or replace them with the new cloned version so it is easy to accidentally keep editing the old files.

This will be all fixed in Alchitry Labs V2. There’s an open issue for cloning to be added. V2 is close to leaving the preview state.

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Thanks Justin,

I am getting by with Clone. Just takes 3 or 4 tries sometimes to get a good copy. Looking forward to Labs V2.

Doug