Hello all,
This morning I solved a problem that had been bugging me and my boss for a couple weeks and wanted to share the fix. I do not know how it happened but, at some point in the last month a project that we were working on started saving the screens with the deprecated .SCR file extension instead of the more current .SCC file extension.
We could not convert the .SCRs to .SCCs because Indusoft failed to do so and we thought that we would be were stuck with using .SCRs. We tried deleting the .SCR files from the project but found that that would have lost days of work that we didn't realize were being saved in the wrong format. Veriifying the project also didn't fix the problem. In the end, what I did to fix things without losing hours and hours of work was this:
1: Completely exit Indusoft
2: Make a backup of the project
3: Delete all .SCC files from the project folder
4: Reopen Indusoft with the project
5: Open Project options -> Viewer
6: Uncheck the box to use the deprecated .scr extension
7: Open a screen (any screen), make a small change, and save the screen again (this step is probably not necessary)
8: Close the project
9: Verify all .SCR files are gone from the project -> screen folder
10: Make a backup of the fixed project
11: Knock back a stiff one in celebration ( this step is probably not necessary)
Hopefully this helps anyone else who has this problem.