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CCSv6 projects cannot be imported to CCSv5

Pierre Bouchet1
Expert 2545 points

Hello,

I wanted to go back to CCSv5 from CCSv6 but CCSv5 wouldn't import my projects. It failed with the following message: 

Error: Import failed for project 'some_project' because its meta-data cannot be interpreted. Please contact support.

I think I narrowed down the cause of this message to an entry in the .cproject files in CCSv6 

<tool id="com.ti.ccstudio.buildDefinitions.C2000_6.2.hex.1474735643" name="C2000 Hex Utility" superClass="com.ti.ccstudio.buildDefinitions.C2000_6.2.hex"/>

Merely deleting this entry from the file does not solve the problem, I had to reboot my computer in order to get it to succesfully import in CCSv5.

Someone please fix this?

Regards,

PB

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    TI__Guru**** 159715 points

    Pierre,

    Projects can be imported into newer versions not older versions.  Sometimes you get luck and the changes are small enough that they will work in older versions but that is not by design.

    In this case what you are running into is that in CCSv6 the project system has the hex utility integrated and CCSv5 does not.  Thus CCSv5 does not recognize that part of the project.  "Fixing" this would require going back and making a new version of CCSv5 that either supported this feature or had logic to ignore that section.  We won't be doing that.  In cases where the structure of the project files haven't changed then the workaround you used of removing the new info will work, however in other cases when new versions the project format itself will change.

    Regards,

    John

  • 0 in reply to JohnS
    Expert 2545 points

    John,

    Thanks for your swift reply,

    I was mainly asking about the part where I have to restart Windows in order to have CCS take the change into account.

    Regards,

    PB