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What are these files ?

donrecardo

I have been learning to make my own library parts

 

I wanted to make pin headers  ( with different pads to the normal pinhead library)

 

I found out I could  make just one library My_Header_Pins.LBR and include in it various sizes of connector

like 3 pins , 4 pins etc .

 

When I just looked in the library folder I see I have My_Header_Pins.LBR and also several others like

My_Header_Pins.L#1

My_Header_Pins.L#2

My_Header_Pins.L#3

My_Header_Pins.L#4

 

What are these extra files with the strange extension. Are they just something that gets made each time I add to my library

and do I need to keep them or can I just delete them ?

 

Don

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    Those are backup files.  If you're happy with your changes and don't need to revert to a previous version of your library, you can delete them...

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    On 15/03/14 08:50, Don Recardo wrote:

    When I just looked in the library folder I see I have My_Header_Pins.LBR

    and also several others like

    My_Header_Pins.L#1

    My_Header_Pins.L#2

    My_Header_Pins.L#3

    My_Header_Pins.L#4

     

    What are these extra files with the strange extension. Are they just

    something that gets made each time I add to my library

    and do I need to keep them or can I just delete them ?

     

    Every time you save anything in Eagle it makes one of these '#n' files

    as a backup of the previous version. If you're sure you didn't make any

    mistakes and won't want to go back (or if you are using a version

    control system and have saved all the history that way) then yes, you

    can safely delete them.