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?
On 04/23/2013 09:07 AM, Richard Herman wrote:
Op Tue, 23 Apr 2013 14:37:45 +0200 schreef Tor-Arne Forsmo
<noreply-116480@element14.com>:
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
Thank you so much.
That's windows data redirection 'feature'. You are trying to write to a
protected location (Program files) and windows 'solves' that by actually
writing to that virtualstore location, but telling you that it wrote to
'program files'. That latter part somehow went wrong. If you want to
know more, google it (UAC Virtualization).
Anyway, if you insist in keeping your projects, schematics and/or board
in that location this will most likely happen again. Move them to
somewhere in your user profile, like 'Documents'. If you make a habit of
modifying standard Eagle libraries, scripts and/or ulp's (bad practice)
move these also.
I STRONGLY suggest keeping backup copies on some other media. Computers
fail. Software has bugs. Sooner or later the files on that computer will
become inaccessible.
You can buy network-attach storage systems cheaply. I bought a D-Link
DNS-323 for about $100, put a pair of 2 TB "Green" drives in it in a
RAID-1 configuration, and installed Subversion and Git content
management software on it. In its idle state it draws about 3 Watts,
which is less than one of those incandescent night lights. Spin-up time
is less than 20 seconds. All my development project changes get
committed whenever I reach a point I want to save. Anything I want to
preserve long-term gets written to CD-R or DVD-R media and stored in a
fire safe or off-site.
