topic Re: A version of this design has been referenced by drawings, other designs, or manufacturing-related files and cannot be deleted. in Fusion Electronics Forum

A version of this design has been referenced by drawings, other designs, or manufacturing-related files and cannot be deleted.

RitchieFromParis — Wed, 15 Jan 2025 18:49:30 GMT

How to delete a project with a .sch/.pcb and the 3D ? Apparently it is linked to another project but impossible to know which one, moreover I did not ask for anything! Why does he decide on his own to link one project with another?

Thanks

Re: A version of this design has been referenced by drawings, other designs, or manufacturing-related files and cannot be deleted.

jorge_garcia — Wed, 15 Jan 2025 19:31:37 GMT

Hi @RitchieFromParis,

This is the nature of Fusion, after a file has been saved a few times it refers to itself and it becomes impossible to delete. For this reason, in my beginner tutorials I always recommend users create a trash project to move files they are no longer interested in and can't delete. This is a product of how the files are versioned and there is no way to disable this behavior.

Here's the video I'm referencing, you'll see it's a few years old at this point.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_jgUZeBiusw&list=PLmA_xUT-8UlL80Xm8Gxz98YNum3I9GInr&index=1&t=1s

Let me know if there's anything else I can do for you.

Best Regards,

Re: A version of this design has been referenced by drawings, other designs, or manufacturing-related files and cannot be deleted.

RitchieFromParis — Wed, 15 Jan 2025 19:58:08 GMT

Good evening Jorge,

Thank you for your answer, but WHY? Can't you correct that? So I'm going to have more than 30 files that I can't delete? When you say "a file saved several times" but when you know the stability of Fusion, it is normal to save several times, when I carry out a project, I spend more time saving than really working.

So if I understand correctly there is nothing to do? Why complicate things that could be simple, destroying a file is something normal and common right? All software allows this! I would definitely never understand the philosophy of your developers, but it's yours.

There are still many things to evolve...😫

Thanks

Re: A version of this design has been referenced by drawings, other designs, or manufacturing-related files and cannot be deleted.

jorge_garcia — Wed, 15 Jan 2025 20:41:23 GMT

Hi @RitchieFromParis,

I ask myself that same question often, but it's a foundational part of Fusion's Design and there's nothing currently to be done to change it. I can't change it, it would likely take a senior leadership decision to get it to change.

The technical explanation I've been given is that in a certain sense the association is brittle. If Fusion tries to open a file and the link takes it to a file that no longer exists then any files that are associated with it will not be able to open, which as you can imagine is not a desirable result. So to avoid ever trying to open a file that no longer exists these measures are taken.

Let me know if there's anything else I can do for you.

Best Regards,

Re: A version of this design has been referenced by drawings, other designs, or manufacturing-related files and cannot be deleted.

RitchieFromParis — Wed, 15 Jan 2025 20:49:34 GMT

I understand and thank you for your sincerity, but also understand that it is not to reassure me on the contrary, I go back a little to my enthusiasm for the evolution of Fusion in my old POST, I am not yet ready to start big projects with Fusion.

How can a leader of a large company like yours jeopardize a reputation on simple stupid decisions or even a few lines of code, It's completely stupid.

I find it pitiful and if you need help we may be able to help you there are many here and in addition we are customers who pay.

Thank you in any case Jorge for your help and honesty.

Re: A version of this design has been referenced by drawings, other designs, or manufacturing-related files and cannot be deleted.

RitchieFromParis — Thu, 16 Jan 2025 07:05:01 GMT

Bonjour,

After spending several hours I found how to delete these recalcitrant files, once again it's a shame that in 2025 we can't delete what we want in a software.

Can you just remind me when we can no longer erase? And does this apply to .sch/.pcb 3D files or both ?

Thank you Jorge and sorry for my anger you have nothing to do with it, but sometimes understand, often even, that I am angry after Fusion when I see such nonsense.

Re: A version of this design has been referenced by drawings, other designs, or manufacturing-related files and cannot be deleted.

jorge_garcia — Thu, 16 Jan 2025 17:31:23 GMT

Hi @RitchieFromParis ,

That deletion issue applies to all files in Fusion, mechanical and electronic. It's part of Fusion's design, the electronics team inherits the behavior.

Don't worry @RitchieFromParis, I know it's not personal.

Let me know if there's anything I can do for you.

Best Regards,

Re: A version of this design has been referenced by drawings, other designs, or manufacturing-related files and cannot be deleted.

RitchieFromParis — Thu, 16 Jan 2025 17:35:52 GMT

Hi Jorge,

Thanks for your reply, But I found a workaround.

Best