Tracking down lost library files? wtf?

I successfully extracted some of the components using a very useful ULP. Those are going straight into SubVersion...

På Sat, 17 Sep 2011 00:16:41 +0200, skrev Kjetil Haarbye 

<communitymanager@premierfarnell.com>:

Without any warning, notice, or explaination, all my custom libraries 

disappeared from the eagle/lbr folder. It is safe to say I am pissed, 

and I will get to the bottom of this as I make my living doing this 

stuff and it will cost me (or my employer) thousands of $$$.

Where's your back-up, man? Don't tell me you're doing professional work 

without one... I understand your frustration, but a working back-up 

solution is vital with all computers. You really can't expect to have more 

files than your back-up contains.

Though guys don't take back-up, but they cry often.

Hi Kjetil - Just curious if you'd reached out to the CadSoft EAGLE expert, Richard_H - perhaps he will be able to help?  Hope he can help you find your lost files.

Nicole

On 9/16/2011 6:16 PM, Kjetil Haarbye wrote:

I don't know wether to address Windows 7, EAGLE 5.11.0 (Professional), or my newly installed (today) Texas Instruments Hercules eval kit + CCS (including various hardware drivers), but this is what just happened;

 

Without any warning, notice, or explaination, all my custom libraries disappeared from the eagle/lbr folder. It is safe to say I am pissed, and I will get to the bottom of this as I make my living doing this stuff and it will cost me (or my employer) thousands of $$$.

 

I've dug around with a file recovery tool with no success, the files does not even seem to be deleted in a regular manner. They were all there (\lbr folder) yesterday, I still have some of them embedded in project files (stored in Documents folder, no data lost there..) and hope there will be a way to extract those library components from the schematic/board files (anyone?). When I booted up today, the libraries were all gone (yes we DO use backup copies over here, but not of everything every day).

 

I have fairly good control of my computer (well above your average Joe), and noone sneaks around on it. Full Norton protection, everything, common sense filter that filters out stupid email attachment idiocy, and I'm not installing anything from dubious sources as I work with military stuff and this is my work computer. I am the only one using my laptop, and those files are gone with the wind. Go figure. I have not selected all those custom libs by accident and slipped my fingers over Shift+Del.

 

If anyone have any similar experiences with Eagle 5.11.0 + Win7 or similar setups, please speak up. I am pissed to the point that whatever caused this incident, being Eagle or Windows 7 or whatever third party piece of software, will positively be eliminated from my software work budget unless an comphensation is made from responsible parties along with a speedy bugfix. Comphensation without a lawsuit is rather unlikely as I know the software industry, so I guess it'll end up in a software boycott from my business, plus perhaps (by norwegian law as one need to abide by when selling ANY product in Norway), money back for any software licenses, if the product does not fulfill what is reasonable to expect from it. I should add that I've never experienced this in my past years with earlier versions of EAGLE, so I'm not pointing fingers at you guys, I just want to get to the bottom of this.

 

Sincerely,

Kjetil

 

Hi Kjetil,

Windows 7 new security features, mess with EAGLE. Basically for some

reason Windows 7 denies EAGLE write permissions to it's own

directories(go figure). The way around Windows 7 nannyware is to run

EAGLE as an administrator, right-click on the EAGLE icon on your desktop

and select Run as administrator, do this every time you startup EAGLE.

An alternative would be to have one of your IT guys set those

permissions up permanently.

The exp-project-lbr.ulp included with EAGLE can extract the libraries

from an existing board - schematic pair. Run the ULP in the schematic

and allow it to create multiple libraries, click on collect data and

then once it's done create library.

hth,

Jorge Garcia

Thanks for the feedback folks, I was a bit wired up when I posted but it turns out the actual loss is not a big deal. The exp-project-lbr.ulp mentioned by Jorge was the script that saved the day (actually the week!), I guess the lesson I'll draw from all this is to commit to subversion more frequently in the future. I hope noone interpreted this posting offensive towards EAGLE, I'm just a bit short fused when it comes to certain issues, probably due to the chemic composition of my brain with so many unstable isotopes accumulated from sniffing too much solder fumes. Pardon my aggrevated tone.

On 9/28/2011 2:02 PM, Kjetil wrote:

Thanks for the feedback folks, I was a bit wired up when I posted but it turns out the actual loss is not a big deal. The exp-project-lbr.ulp mentioned by Jorge was the script that saved the day (actually the week!), I guess the lesson I'll draw from all this is to commit to subversion more frequently in the future. I hope noone interpreted this posting offensive towards EAGLE, I'm just a bit short fused when it comes to certain issues, probably due to the chemic composition of my brain with so many unstable isotopes accumulated from sniffing too much solder fumes. Pardon my aggrevated tone.

 

No worries Kjetil,

Always happy to help.

Jorge Garcia