Project archiving

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Hello from Germany again folks, 

 I have finished a project and thus need to archive a copy  in order to preserve all my HDL code and top level schematics.  A few details:  I have built all the subblocks in Verilog and then created symbol blocks  which I instatiate in my top level. I then connect all the blocks using the Quartus II schematic editor.  Here is my problem: Quartus uses an absolute search path in the .qsf file, say we call it HV_CPLD. Once I copy the HV_CPLD to HV_CPLD_4_aug_2010 the library paths in the project still all point to the old directory as do the paths inside the .qsf file.  I have tried using the project -> copy project option, but this does not modify the paths. Do I need to go in and modify all the paths inside the .qsf file by hand ?  There is also the option of archiving the project, but I am not sure that is what I am looking for either.  What have some of you guys out there done to store old versions of a project ? Would be very thankful for any advice !!  Thanks, Eric

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Quartus archiver should do it. Note that an archive/unarchive will make all the files a sub-directory of the project(you don't want the unarchiver putting files randomly all over a new location), so if that wasn't your original setup then it will look different. 

When you add the files in the beginning, you can make them relative, which I recommend. I'm surprised modifying the .qsf is that difficult. If they're all in one or two locations, a search and replace should do it. I would generally do that since you can see exactly what is done.