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14 years ago

Can't Generate Symbol File - Read-Only Error

In Windows for Quartus II v11.0 I can't generate a symbol file (or AHDL, or anything else) for a bdf file. It says "Can't open read-only file" and the path name. What I've tried:

Run as administrator

in DOS ran attrib -r /s /d on whole folder

Generate symbol file to a different directory

Windows 7 or XP

HELP! I'm dead in the water.

Thanks!

Bruce

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    Altera_Forum
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    I don't have a previous install of quartus on this pc, but I get around the bug by creating a file of the same name as my intended symbol name (can be an empty file, doesn't matter), then when I create the symbol in quartus it overwrites this file successfully.

    Annoying but at least it's not too much effort to get around.
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    It's still around under Linux as well with 11.0 :( creating cmp file, workaround on the command line is to 'touch' the filename to create it then set permissions to rwx for all (chmod 777)