I updated MPLAB X IDE 5.30 to 5.40 (hey, I can't update these things every 10 minutes
) Win 7 64.
For me, this jump includes the end of mpasm support and the start of pic-as (part of XC8 v2.20) - I guess 5.35 was the last mpasm, but that is not the issue. I am not interested in adding to the moaning and groaning, I just want to set things up so that I can accommodate the past and the present/future in a convenient (for me) manner.
Ideally, what I would like is to simply keep 5.30 and 5.40 (and subsequent upgrades) on the same machine. I can certainly do that and am doing that now. The problem is the [user]/MPLABXProjects directory. What I really would like to do is to store all of my mpasm projects (and none of the Harmony or pic-as projects) in one project directory (for use with 5.30 and mpasm; and the C, Harmony, and any pic-as projects in a second projects directory when using 5.40 and up.
I can get around this by creating another user, and therefore, another [user]/MPLABXProjects, which could be used for old and subsequent mpasm projects.
I could also keep two copies of [user]/MPLABXProjects and rename one or the other depending on whether I want to use 5.30 or 5.40+.
It would be easier if there were a way to specify in the MPASM IDE X versions
where to look for the project directory, but I can't find that. It seems to simply use [user]/MPLABXProjects.
Is there a way to specify where to find projects in each MPLAB X IDE version?
EDIT: Ahah! Tools/Options/Embedded/Projects Folder (right up on top, where I ignored it
Let me check this out
and then I will mark it [solved].EDIT2: This is not as easy as I thought it might be. Setting a new projects directory does not automatically make them visible in that directory, even though they have been copied into the new directory. I need to work on this a bit. Yes, of course I have backups of the original projects directory