CCS IDE writing files from prev project into new project?

[allenhuffman]

Has anyone seen the issue where, if you switch from one project to another, the new project gets files written into it that are names from the old project?

For example:

Projects\OLD
boot.c
boot.h
boot.ccspjt

If I have that open, then I switch to a secondary project:

Projects\NEW
main.c
main.h
main.ccspjt

...inside the NEW folder I see some "boot.xxx" files written there.

Inspecting those files (in the source locaton, and some in the Output folder if I have one specified in Project Options), I see that the contents match those I expect from "main.xxx" -- but the file names are for the old project.

I've seen it write files like .cof, .esym, .hex, .lst, .STA, .sym and .tre as well as the main .ccspjt and .err files. But, the contents of those files (looking at them now) contain the "new" project stuff, but with a bad name.

I wonder if this is also related to issues where a Clean does not work at all, or only deletes some (maybe a bug where it's trying to use the previous project root name and clean those files).

Anyone else see this all the time? All three of us here see variations of this, so we have started closing all tabs and shutting down CCS IDE, then double-clicking the new project to open it. I think that helps.
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Embedded C, Arduino, MSP430, ESP8266/32, BASIC Stamp and PIC24 programmer.
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[Ttelmah]

I've just opened a twenty file project, then created a new project in
a separate directory and switched to this. Nothing at all transferred.
Switched backwards and forwards a couple of times. Still no transfer.

Wondering if you might be running into an issue with Windows directory
virtualisation. In Windows, if you attempt to write to a directory for
which you do not have write permission. It creates a 'virtual' copy of the
directory and routes your writes to this. I've seen a lot of program issues
when this happens. This is 'VirtualStore'.
<https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_7-windows_programs/please-explain-virtualstore-for-non-experts/d8912f80-b275-48d7-9ff3-9e9878954227>
So step back, and make sure that the directory 'tree' in which your code
is kept belongs to your user, and that the permissions are set to give
read/write on this.

[allenhuffman]

I'll look at that. We see this behavior on two Windows 10 machines, and on this Windows 7 machine I have.

It's highly reproducable here, even with the 5.093, but I haven't worked out a pattern to what causes it.

For instance, if I am in "Bootloader" project then switch to "Test", I will oten see "Bootloader.*" files written into the Test directory. Inspecting those files, though, looks like they contain Test project source.

It's not 100%, but I'm pretty sure it happens daily.
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Allen C. Huffman, Sub-Etha Software (est. 1990) http://www.subethasoftware.com
Embedded C, Arduino, MSP430, ESP8266/32, BASIC Stamp and PIC24 programmer.
http://www.whywouldyouwanttodothat.com ?