Importing EAGLE 5.10 libraries into Version 9.6.2?

Am 20.10.2020 um 10:57 schrieb Dave Bullock MBE:

Hi experts

Having been using my licenced full version of EAGLE since time began but I have now been forced to switch to the latest version due to the modern library format's backward incompatibility

However I have a wealth of customised libraries that I have developed over the years which now don't work.

Can anyone link me to a tutorial on how to import /convert my custom libraries from my old 5.10 version of EAGLE into the new version?

I have discovered how to 'browse' and use the libraries but they seem to disappear the next time I open EAGLE?

How do I make them integrated into the EAGLE 9.6.2 library list, without having to browse back every time I need my custom parts?

Thanks in anticipation....

Dave.

 

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I know nothing about ver 9.x, but usually old libraries are converted

automatically by eagle. Could it be that your lbr's are in a different

directory and you have not added the path in control panel/

options/directories?

Always add the full path to directories separated by semicolon.

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Mit freundlichen Grüßen / With best regards

Joern Paschedag

Hi Joern

Well maybe.... I will have another look, but I copied the old 5.10 library into the EAGLE 9.6.2 libraries folder and it is called 1-FAVOURITES.lbr so it appears right  at the top of the list. (because I use it incessantly)

So when copied across I then run EAGLE 9XX  and of course it's not there because it hasn't been converted yet.

So, I then use Library manager to 'browse' for it and find it

I then select 'USE' and the library appears in the 'add part' EAGLE library list.

I can then (in my new schematic) select parts and they work.

However

If I close EAGLE and re-start it, open a new schematic and then select 'add part' the newly converted library has disappeared.

So How do I make an old library get permanently converted and added to the EAGLE 9xx default library list instead of having to go through this browsing palaver every time?

I must be missing something, please tell me the 'secret spell'...lol!

Thanks

Dave

AhA!

You are right Joern for some crazy reason EAGLE9xx saves files (including saved libraries) in C:Documents .... which on my PC is totally unrelated to where all my EAGLE files are as the only thing on my SSD C: is the O/S.

Mystery solved, I now see that there is a 'Directories' option in the Control Panel that needs all the links re-writing.

Thanks for your comment I should have been more suspicious and investigated further :-)

Best wishes

Dave

AhA!

You are right Joern for some crazy reason EAGLE9xx saves files (including saved libraries) in C:Documents .... which on my PC is totally unrelated to where all my EAGLE files are as the only thing on my SSD C: is the O/S.

Mystery solved, I now see that there is a 'Directories' option in the Control Panel that needs all the links re-writing.

Thanks for your comment I should have been more suspicious and investigated further :-)

Best wishes

Dave

Am 20.10.2020 um 12:46 schrieb Dave Bullock MBE:

AhA!

You are right Joern for some crazy reason EAGLE9xx saves files (including saved libraries) in C:Documents .... which on my PC is totally unrelated to where all my EAGLE files are as the only thing on my SSD C: is the O/S.

Mystery solved, I now see that there is a 'Directories' option in the Control Panel that needs all the links re-writing.

Thanks for your comment I should have been more suspicious and investigated further

Best wishes

Dave

 

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Glad that I could help;-)

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Joern Paschedag