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Enterprise Architect => Suggestions and Requests => Topic started by: Richard Phillips on November 12, 2010, 01:58:13 am

Title: XMI import enhancement
Post by: Richard Phillips on November 12, 2010, 01:58:13 am

I have just had the misfortune to unintentionally overwrite some stuff in a package when importing the same package from an updated off-side instance of the model.

I would like ea to automatically export the package before deleting it when you perform an XMI import. That way you can easily restore to the same point before the package import was carried out.

This should be an easy enhancement and would save many man hours locating backups or re-creating deleted material.

Title: Re: XMI import enhancement
Post by: skiwi on November 12, 2010, 09:43:41 am

Hey, how about an improved undo?

Title: Re: XMI import enhancement
Post by: Geert Bellekens on November 12, 2010, 05:54:11 pm

Richard,

I don't agree, exporting a backup of the packages to be deleted would mean a serious performance penalty for a part that is already very bad on performance.

Add an option to backup before delete that I don't mind, but not automatically.

An improved undo function would always be nice of course, as long as it doesn't come with a performance penalty.

Geert

Title: Re: XMI import enhancement
Post by: Josh Gold on November 20, 2010, 04:55:59 am

Is there a fix for this?  I (foolishly) imported an XMI file over my model and now the whole thing is gone.  I can see the stuff is still in the *.eap file, though.  And sadly (and foolishly), I do not have any back-ups of it.