Storing custom made lbr files

Am 01.11.2012 08:09, schrieb Stefan Olsson:

Hi

 

I have both EAGLE-6.2.0 and EAGLE-6.3.0 installed on my Windows 7 platform.

Over the time I have made a number of .lbr files with both EAGLE versions.

Nowdays I only use EAGLE-6.3.0.

I create designs with components form libraries I have created with both versions of EAGLE.

The parameter "Libraries" in the "Directory" menu is set to "$EAGLEDIR\lbr"

 

Do a newer EAGLE version search older installed EGALE versions /lbr directory for .lbr files ?

Do EAGLE "move around" custom made .lbr files when it is installed ?

 

If a do a search for one of my files, hartman.lbr, I can not find it, neither in C:\Program Files (x86)\EAGLE-6.2.0 or in C:\Program Files (x86)\EAGLE-6.3.0 but if I do "Open library" in EAGLE-6.3.0 and move to C:\Program Files (x86)\EAGLE-6.2.0\lbr EAGLE it will find the file and I can open it ??

 

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Regards Stefan

 

Eagle-6.3.0 is a newer version and may contain updated libraries and

some other corrections.

If you have created your own devices you should put them into your own

libraries and place them into a different directory.

Otherwise if you update eagle into the same directory the libraries will

be overwritten and your work is lost.

You must add the path to your own libraries in the control panel

/options /directories and separate it from existing entry by a semicolon.

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Mit freundlichen Grüßen / With best regards

Joern Paschedag

Hi

I do understand that and I try to archive this, but I can not find the files I have created, but EAGLE do.

An example.

I have created a library, hartman.lbr:

This library I can open up within EAGLE by doing doing "Open library" but when I try to find the actual file it is nowhere to be found,

neither in

C:\Program Files (x86)\EAGLE-6.2.0\lbr

or in

C:\Program Files (x86)\EAGLE-6.3.0\lbr

So, my question is/was, is EAGLE moving the library files around on it's own, do it concatenate library files when newer versions of EAGLE is installed etc.

Reagrds

Am 01.11.2012 09:36, schrieb Stefan Olsson:

Hi

 

I do understand that and I try to archive this, but I can not find the files I have created, but EAGLE do.

 

An example.

 

I have created a library, hartman.lbr:

 

This library I can open up within EAGLE by doing doing "Open library" but when I try to find the actual file it is nowhere to be found,

 

neither in

C:\Program Files (x86)\EAGLE-6.2.0\lbr

or in

C:\Program Files (x86)\EAGLE-6.3.0\lbr

 

So, my question is/was, is EAGLE moving the library files around on it's own, do it concatenate library files when newer versions of EAGLE is installed etc.

 

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Reagrds

 

No, why should eagle?

The variable $EAGLEDIR depends on system. Why don't you set a real path?

If you can open your "hartman.lbr" from an eagle sheet/board you should

be able to move up the path to your actual directory.

If this doesn't work start a file search with your operating systen.

Also check that the library is "in use".

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Mit freundlichen Grüßen / With best regards

Joern Paschedag

Hi

Platform: Windows 7

The reason I ask is that if

A) I Start EAGLE-6.3.0, do open library,

B) I can see the file hartman.lbr,

C) If I right click on the file it says that the path to this file is "C:\Program Files (x86)\EAGLE-6.2.0\lbr"

This mean that EAGLE concatenate the content in both "C:\Program Files (x86)\EAGLE-6.2.0\lbr" and "C:\Program Files (x86)\EAGLE-6.3.0\lbr"

Either by moving files around or just concate the content in the UI.

However, If

A) I open an ordinary Windows file manager

B) Enter the path "C:\Program Files (x86)\EAGLE-6.2.0\lbr"

C) The file hartman.lbr is not there

So, how come that "Open library" inside EAGLE-6.3.0 can find hartman.lbr when I can not do it manually find it via a file browser ?

Regards

Am 01.11.2012 13:26, schrieb Stefan Olsson:

Hi

 

Platform: Windows 7

 

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The reason I ask is that if

 

A) I Start EAGLE-6.3.0, do open library,

B) I can see the file hartman.lbr,

C) If I right click on the file it says that the path to this file is "C:\Program Files (x86)\EAGLE-6.2.0\lbr"

 

This mean that EAGLE concatenate the content in both "C:\Program Files (x86)\EAGLE-6.2.0\lbr" and "C:\Program Files (x86)\EAGLE-6.3.0\lbr"

Either by moving files around or just concate the content in the UI.

 

However, If

A) I open an ordinary Windows file manager

B) Enter the path "C:\Program Files (x86)\EAGLE-6.2.0\lbr"

C) The file hartman.lbr is not there

 

So, how come that "Open library" inside EAGLE-6.3.0 can find hartman.lbr when I can not do it manually find it via a file browser ?

 

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Regards

 

I don't use Win7, but could it be

C:\*user*\Program Files (x86)\EAGLE-6.2.0\lbr

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Mit freundlichen Grüßen / With best regards

Joern Paschedag

Am 01.11.2012 13:26, schrieb Stefan Olsson:

Hi

 

Platform: Windows 7

 

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The reason I ask is that if

 

A) I Start EAGLE-6.3.0, do open library,

B) I can see the file hartman.lbr,

C) If I right click on the file it says that the path to this file is "C:\Program Files (x86)\EAGLE-6.2.0\lbr"

 

This mean that EAGLE concatenate the content in both "C:\Program Files (x86)\EAGLE-6.2.0\lbr" and "C:\Program Files (x86)\EAGLE-6.3.0\lbr"

Either by moving files around or just concate the content in the UI.

 

However, If

A) I open an ordinary Windows file manager

B) Enter the path "C:\Program Files (x86)\EAGLE-6.2.0\lbr"

C) The file hartman.lbr is not there

 

So, how come that "Open library" inside EAGLE-6.3.0 can find hartman.lbr when I can not do it manually find it via a file browser ?

 

>

 

Regards

 

I don't use Win7, but could it be

C:\*user*\Program Files (x86)\EAGLE-6.2.0\lbr

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Mit freundlichen Grüßen / With best regards

Joern Paschedag