Remove unused files in Eeschema

[Melroy van den Berg]

Hi,

I noticed, if you have multiple sheets in Eeschema, after a while of adding and removing sheets (*.sch files), you end up with multiple *.sch files which aren't used at all.

These files are not relevant any-more and should therefore be cleaned up. Otherwise it can become a mess.
Instead of deleting this files directly, my proposal is to add a 'clean-up' button which does this works for you.

- Melroy van den Berg

[Nick Østergaard (nickoe)]

Where do you want this button to spawn?

[Hildo Guillardi Júnior (hildogjr)]

Maybe in the right context menu, when clicked on the tree?

[Seth Hillbrand (sethh)]

There are many ways that this can go wrong. KiCad should not be in the business of deleting files.

[Wayne Stambaugh (stambaughw)]

I concur. Deleting schematics that could potentially be reused is a recipe for disaster.

[Alexander (alaut)]

rather than deletion, just dipslay all the .sch file in the root directory in the project browser, and discolor the ones that aren't being used. This at least notifies the user of what unused schematics are available, both to provide options to later include in the schematic or as means to clean it up or move it to an archived directory.