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All of my schematics and boards are suddenly gone!

Plecto

I haven't used eagle in about a month or so, but when I today tried to open one of my schematics, they were all gone including the board files! I have done nothing to my computer files and I have certanly not deleted anything. The only thing that I might have done is update it as I no longer get the message telling me to do so (I got v.6.2.0 light). This is such a disaster, what has happened?

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  • Hi.

    Every new version of eagle installs in an new folder, like C:\Program Files (x86)\EAGLE-6.3.0, C:\Program Files (x86)\EAGLE-6.1.0 and so on.

    By default eagle use the library and project folders from the eagle install folder so I would guess that you could find your projects and librarys is in the old eagle install directory.

    In eagle Control Panel you can go to menu Options -> Directories to specify wich folders to include.

  • in reply to bmoe

    No new install directory has been made. I got two directories, both are in Program Files (x86). One folder is called Eagle-5.3.0, the other is called EAGLE-6.2.0. I've had these for a long time, I just haven't bothered to delete the first one, but I've always used the latter one. I've searched for "eagle" without finding any other directories. Going into options and directories I see "$EAGLEDIR\lbr" "$EAGLEDIR\dru" etc. I don't really know where their harddrive location is.

  • in reply to Plecto

    Hi.
    Can you check in the C:\Program Files (x86)\EAGLE-6.2.0\projects folder with a file maneger and see if you can find your project there?

    The $EAGLEDIR point to your eagle installation directory wich in your case seems to be C:\Program Files (x86)\EAGLE-6.2.0.

     

    The default directories should be:

    Libraries: $EAGLEDIR\lbr

    Design Rules: $EAGLEDIR\dru

    User Language Programs: $EAGLEDIR\ulp

    Scripts: $EAGLEDIR\scr

    CAM Jobs: $EAGLEDIR\cam

    Projects: $EAGLEDIR\projects

  • in reply to bmoe

    The directories are as you say with the exeption of projects which has a long path to some examples folder. I changed it to "$EAGLEDIR\projects".

     

    I don't think I've made many projects, I've probably just worked with one project, making several schematics within it. Not sure where I can find the file manager though, do you mean right clicking the start menu and then click "Open windows explorer"?

  • in reply to Plecto

    Yes, it was the windows explorer that I ment.
    You could also try to search for all the bord(.brd) or schematic(.sch) files on your computer.
    On Win7 in windows explorer you can select C: to the left and then in the search field in the upper right corner type *.brd to search for board files or *.sch for schematics.

  • in reply to bmoe

    Thank you image I thought about searching for the files, but the files doesn't show up if I just look for them in "Computer", they do in Windows Explorer though. They have been moved to "C:\Users\Torri\AppData\Local\VirtualStore\Program Files (x86)\EAGLE-6.2.0" oddly enough, I can't imagine why :S I'll copy them back to where they belong image Thank you so much.

  • in reply to Plecto

    Thats nice. Your welcome. Glad I could help.

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