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

Dave Bullock MBE wrote:

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

I assume you will need to save the library in the new format

explicitly.

I assume 9.x still has a library editor?

Opening the old library in it then saving it shoul do the trick.

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Lorenz

Dave Bullock MBE wrote:

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

I assume you will need to save the library in the new format

explicitly.

I assume 9.x still has a library editor?

Opening the old library in it then saving it shoul do the trick.

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Lorenz

Hi Lorenz

Well I only downloaded 9.x yesterday and am trying to make it look like my old 5.10

Eagle 9.x doesn't have its folders directly in the Eagle root directory they are hidden in unrelated paths for instance C:/Eagle/cache/lib

rather than C:/eagle/lib so rather a strange folder nomenclature.

I need to reorganise this so I can find stuff...LOL!

Dave

Am 20.10.2020 um 13:22 schrieb Dave Bullock MBE:

Hi Lorenz

Well I only downloaded 9.x yesterday and am trying to make it look like my old 5.10

Eagle 9.x doesn't have its folders directly in the Eagle root directory they are hidden in unrelated paths for instance C:/Eagle/cache/lib

rather than C:/eagle/lib so rather a strange folder nomenclature.

I need to reorganise this so I can find stuff...LOL!

Dave

 

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Yeah, the modern world...

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Mit freundlichen Grüßen / With best regards

Joern Paschedag

On 20/10/2020 12:22, Dave Bullock MBE wrote:

Hi Lorenz

Well I only downloaded 9.x yesterday and am trying to make it look like my old 5.10

Eagle 9.x doesn't have its folders directly in the Eagle root directory they are hidden in unrelated paths for instance C:/Eagle/cache/lib

rather than C:/eagle/lib so rather a strange folder nomenclature.

I need to reorganise this so I can find stuff...LOL!

I believe v9 still allows you to relocate your libraries by setting up

the directories, as Joern originally suggested. It may not be so easily

found as it was on V5, or you may have always used the V5 default (which

you shouldn't have done as it was a bad default, really). What's changed

is that the default folder is now somewhere unrelated to Eagle instead

of somewhere you shouldn't be writing to.

Do not use the "cache" hierarchy for anything! It's only a cache and can

be wiped and overwritten at a whim.