IDE Deletes PDE File! (SOLVED)

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I hope to ghu this hasn't happened to anyone else...

I'm using the 1.0.3 IDE, alongside Visual Studio 2012 with the Visual Micro add-in installed (which lets you write Arduino code in VS, and has a nifty, if somewhat limited, integrated debugging facility).

I had occasion to open a PDE in both VS2012 and the Arduino IDE. It was saved in VS. I made a few changes to it in the Arduino IDE. When I went to close it I was prompted about went to save it. No problem, no error message.

But the PDE file was deleted from disk.

Needless to say, this was not a fun moment.

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Why are you using pde files with 1.0+? The default extension for 1.0+ is ino.

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Because I've been away from Arduino programming for about two years, so all of my existing sketches use the PDE extension.

But you've resolved my issue, so thanks! The IDE renamed the PDE file to use the INO extension. So it wasn't deleted after all. Whew!

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Always happy to help, even accidentally.