How to open the precompiled Quartus Prime project

[Vladislav-Butko-bvo]

I have precompiled (with db and incremental_db folders, so it have sof/pof files) Quartus Prime (22.1std.1 Build 917 02/14/2023 SC Lite Edition) project and want to open "Technology Map Viewer (Post-Fitting)" diagram without any changing in the project (in particular, whitout second compilation).

I attempt to open this project in Quartus Prime 24.1std.0 Build 1077 03/04/2025 SC Lite Edition.

While opening the project the follow warning is appearing:
"Do you want to overwrite the database for revision ...?"
If I click on "No" nothing more will happen. So, I click on "Yes". 

This operation updates precompiled db folder. That's why need to import database (Project -> Import database) from original (without updates) project folder copied in advance of clicking "Yes".

While the importing I chose db folder from the original folder, but was occured the follow error: "*.db_info is up to date ...". I stuck on this stage...

 

[FvM · Accepted solution]

Hi,
24.1 involves many changes. To open the compiled database or recreate it almost identically (the fitter result can be slightly different due to random seed) use 22.1.1, still available for download.