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Where are the files?

sailmike1

I just made some changes to an old PCB and opened CAM to create a new set of gerber files. Those files appear to have been created, but they aren't showing up in the project folder. One of the following pictures shows the files in the control panel window. I followed the path indicated at the bottom of the screen, but they just aren't there. What's going on? I'm running Eagle 6.4 standard edition on Windows 8.1.

 

Thanks,

Mike

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  • 0 in reply to sailmike1

    Just a suggestion for the future, but I think you should make an EAGLE directory under your documents directory and change the directory setting in the EAGLE control panel to use it instead of the Program Files area...

  • 0 in reply to AnalogNotes

    If the path you thought your files were in was under the "Program Data" or

    "Program Files" path, then check the "virtual store" under your account -

    windows has this "feature" where it will put things there and let you think

    you put them in the install directory.  BUT it doesn't tell you it did that

    and you can spend days trying to figure out why some things can find them,

    but you can't or the latest license file you put in the install directory

    is not working (an old version was in the "virtual store" and it was

    looking there first.  At least under windows 7, the virtual store will be

    "C:\Users\mikey\AppData\Local\VirtualStore" (obviously change the account

    name to yours).

     

    mikey (having been bitten by this one recently with another program ... )

     

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  • 0 in reply to autodeskguest

    Mikey, I had the computer do a search for the files and found them in the folder you mentioned. Thanks!

     

    From the control panel in Eagle I changed the projects directory. I hope this solves the problem. I hope I don't have to do this for every project.

     

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  • 0 in reply to sailmike1

    Glad you found them - that "virtual store" has tripped up quite a few

    people.  Where you can get bitten (I think this is where it got me) was

    when I tried to drag some license files from an email to a "protected"

    folder.  Windows apparently handles files from an email differently than

    files you have on your desktop for example even if you have admin rights

    the whole time.  The bottom line is to recognize that apps that try to

    write to the protected folders (many older apps store ini files and other

    such things in their install folder) end up with stuff in the "virtual

    store" which can cause interesting things down the road.  I first read

    about it in this forum if I remember correctly where someone had some

    library files that Eagle could see, but he could not see them with windows

    explorer looking in the directory they said they were in (they were

    actually hidden down in the "virtual store")

     

    mikey

     

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