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Altera_Forum
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17 years ago

The project settings files are read-only

I have a project, that I last compiled under Quartus II v8.0. I now want to compile it with 8.1 and I keep getting the message: "The project setting files are read-only and will not be updated wi...
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16 years ago

Yes, I worked it out in the end. I use a version control system, and made sure that the QSF file was checked out, but still it said they were read-only. In the end I found that not only does it need the QSF file writable it also needs every QIP file writable aswell. Why it needs these when they don't get changed outside of the megawizard I don't know, but that's the case. Version control worked on these with Quartus 8.0 but these days I keep them almost permanently checked out.....