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Eagle 6.3 crashing a lot

scott216

I just upgraded to 6.3 (Hobby Licence) and it's crashing all the time. I'm running on a mac OSX 10.7.5. It seems to happen most when I run a CAM job.  Anyone else having this problem?

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  • in reply to e14 Contributor

    On 12/4/2012 6:56 PM, Richard Goodrich wrote:

    I bought it a year ago and am just now using it and it crashes every time I turn around!

     

     

    Hi Guys,

     

    We're currently chasing down some MAC OS bugs. So far no one has been

    able to provide a reliable procedure to recreate a crash. I've attempted

    to recreate all reports so far on my 10.7.4 machine.

     

    What I have found does help is to make sure all of your permissions are

    properly setup. I have copied below a procedure for making sure all of

    the permissions are properly set to allow EAGLE to modify it's own files.

     

    Here it is:

     

    1. Open a terminal session.

    2. Find out where EAGLE's installation directory is located, by default

    it should be in the applications folder.

    3. Use the cd (change directory) command to work your way to the EAGLE

    installation folder.

    4. Once your inside EAGLE's installation folder use the ls(list) command

    to see the contents of EAGLE's installation directory. You should see

    six folders bin, ulp, scr, lbr, doc, and cam.

    5. Use the ls -l command to give you a more info on the items. The item

    you're interested is the ownership of the file, you'll notice that for

    EAGLE's folders the owner is 507 instead of your user id.

    6. What you need to do now is change the ownership of the files to your

    person. We do this using the chown(change owner) command. The syntax is

    as follows:

     

    sudo chown username file1 file2 file3 etc

     

    Since we want to change the ownership of all of the files in the

    directory it's easier to use a wildcard instead of the typing in the

    folder names one by one. So the syntax you'll want to use is:

     

    sudo chown -Rf username *

    7.The -Rf tag tells the command to go through all of the files within

    the directory so it will go through all of the folders and directories

    under the EAGLE folder at once.

    8. You're going to repeat this process now using the chmod command which

    controls how various users can access and modify the files. Type the command

     

    sudo chmod -Rf 777 *

     

    9. Once this is done you'll have access to all of EAGLE's files and

    you'll be able to modify them without the MAC OS getting in the way.

     

    hth,

    Jorge Garcia

    Cadsoft Support