Path: ...!3.eu.feeder.erje.net!feeder.erje.net!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Don Y Newsgroups: sci.electronics.design Subject: Re: LT Spice updates Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2024 12:18:32 -0700 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 19 Message-ID: References: <66689c4b$0$3102244$882e4bbb@reader.netnews.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2024 21:19:18 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="271722aef9b4d1c32740cb20041bfcb3"; logging-data="1253860"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+rFO6Fd3tZ9U0JEBHh+mE6" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; Win64; x64; rv:102.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/102.2.2 Cancel-Lock: sha1:wXBNOEoguRTGgJu+BTgF7UZWgJA= In-Reply-To: Content-Language: en-US Bytes: 2182 On 6/11/2024 12:17 PM, Don Y wrote: > On 6/11/2024 11:56 AM, Edward Rawde wrote: >> It's been a long time since the average software update switched from >> actually fixing anything to forcing the latest version into use. > > Unfortunately, you may not realize that this has been imposed on you > until it is too late to "go back". > > I preserve copies of old files in their original forms (and file formats) > to safeguard against this biting me -- again!  This lets me decide if I > want to abandon the "more recent" version of the file in favor of returning > to an earlier version (with known performance characteristics in the earlier > application version) Of course, maintaining old versions is a piece of cake with VMs (and folks who haven't adopted SOME form of that technology are needlessly hindering their own productivity!)