Use None and All Libraries Still Show Up

On 7/02/2016 12:36 p.m., John Socha-Leialoha wrote:

I'm having a problem with Eagle 7.3.0. I've selected Use none for a

large number of libraries, and confirmed that the dot next to them is

gray instead of green. However, when I click to add a component, I get

all of the libraries. The libraries I'm trying to exclude are ones that

are installed by Eagle. I event removed the $EAGLEDIR\lbr entry from the

Directories dialog (from the Libraries text box), and they still show

up. I also exited and restarted Eagle and they still show up.

 

Has anyone else run into this? Is this a known bug in 7.3? I tried 7.5,

but I get the same issue.

 

Thanks,

   -- John

Hi

I suspect you are using projects.

Each project folder will have a file name eagle.epf

Inside that file are the USED libraries from when the project was last

closed.

After closing a project, even if you UN-USE all the libraries in the

control panel, when you open the project later the epf file is read and

the libraries it contains are set to USE. If you now look at the control

panel, all those libraries will now have the green dot/USED.

You should be able UN-USE them all and to go back to the schematic where

they should not appear on an ADD.

HTH

Warren

On 7/02/2016 1:12 p.m., warrenbrayshaw wrote:

On 7/02/2016 12:36 p.m., John Socha-Leialoha wrote:

I'm having a problem with Eagle 7.3.0. I've selected Use none for a

large number of libraries, and confirmed that the dot next to them is

gray instead of green. However, when I click to add a component, I get

all of the libraries. The libraries I'm trying to exclude are ones that

are installed by Eagle. I event removed the $EAGLEDIR\lbr entry from the

Directories dialog (from the Libraries text box), and they still show

up. I also exited and restarted Eagle and they still show up.

 

Has anyone else run into this? Is this a known bug in 7.3? I tried 7.5,

but I get the same issue.

 

Thanks,

   -- John

 

Hi

 

I suspect you are using projects.

Each project folder will have a file name eagle.epf

Inside that file are the USED libraries from when the project was last

closed.

After closing a project, even if you UN-USE all the libraries in the

control panel, when you open the project later the epf file is read and

the libraries it contains are set to USE. If you now look at the control

panel, all those libraries will now have the green dot/USED.

 

You should be able UN-USE them all and to go back to the schematic where

they should not appear on an ADD.

 

HTH

Warren

 

I should add a couple more comments

The epf could be pointing to libraries of an earlier version,when you

used the project in that earlier/other version. Hence you are turning

off the current version libraries but the older version libraries are

being presented with the ADD.

Open the eagle.epf file with a text editor. You should be able to see if

this is the case

You can delete the eagle.epf file of the project and another will

created later

All the best

Warren

Yes, I'm using projects. I didn't have an eagle.epf file for the project I had open. However, there were eagle.epf files in other projects that were visible in the Control Panel. So I deleted all of those eagle.epf files, restarted Eagle, and I'm seeing the same thing. It's very odd... I do have Eagle 6.6 installed on my machine, as well as 7.3.0. Should I try removing Eagle 6.6?

Thanks,

   -- John