Mac "corrupting" LBR files?

A friend and I share projects, both using Eagle 7.2.0. He recently started using a Mac, and now it seems if he saves a Library file, it gets "changed" by the Max such that I can't use it in Windows any more. The error I get is:

Loading C:/Users/GA93335/Desktop/PCB/PIC24LIB.lbr ...

Error:

line 1, column 1: Start tag expected.

If I open the LBR file in Notepad I get a bunch of "oddball" stuff, but I don't know what should be there. Is it possible the Mac is using a path or some other nomenclature in the file that "messes it up" for use in Windows?

I have attached one LBR file here (changed the extension so it would attach). I am unable to use it in Windows (tried on 2 different computers), but it works fine on the Mac. What do I have to do to "fix" it so both of us can use it?

Attachments:

PIC24LIB.txt.zip

0 Former Member over 8 years ago

So I looked at other LBR files (from Windows) and they are "easy to read" xml files. As I said once saved on the Mac it gets converted to a bunch of "crap"...

I guess I might try to open the LBR file in a text editor on the Mac and see if we can copy/paste that way... Maybe encryption or compression is used on the Mac? Any other thoughts?
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0 Former Member over 8 years ago in reply to Former Member

Looks like "copy/paste" from the Mac caused the issue. Opening the file in the Mac and saving the contents as a TXT file, and renaming to LBR restores functionality, so somehow there is either encryption or compression in the drag-and-drop that "breaks" it...

Problem solved!
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0 gpsmikey over 8 years ago in reply to Former Member

I would be suspicious of a "newline" vs CR/LF issue - Mac's are basically
Linux based and Linux uses one type of line terminator while windowz uses
the other (I have had to use sed in the Linux world before to convert text
files generated on the Linux machine to a format that windows apps could
read).

mikey

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0 autodeskguest over 8 years ago in reply to gpsmikey

On 04/02/15 06:16, Mike Fields wrote:
I would be suspicious of a "newline" vs CR/LF issue -

Not likely to cause what the OP was reporting.

Mac's are basically
Linux based and Linux uses one type of line terminator while windowz uses
the other

Also not quite true. MacOS-X may be BSD-derived but it retains the
original Mac newline which is different from both Windows and Linux.

I don't know what MacOS does with unicode but that sounds more likely to
be the cause of the "bunch of crap" reported. However, I'd also be
suspicious of the Mac being "too smart for its own good" and encrypting
files with a .LBR extension (or prefixing them with a "this is the X86
version" tag), especially if converting to a text file fixed it!
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0 autodeskguest over 8 years ago in reply to Former Member

Am 03.02.2015 um 21:47 schrieb mike phillips:
Looks like "copy/paste" from the Mac caused the issue. Opening the file
in the Max and saving the contents as a TXT file, and renaming to LBR
restores functionality, so somehow there is either encryption or
compression in the drag-and-drop that "breaks" it...

Problem solved!

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A library file created with EAGLE under Mac does not differ at all
from a library file created under Windows or Linux. Could you please
send the "cryptic" file so we can check?
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0 gpsmikey over 8 years ago in reply to autodeskguest

Rob Pearce wrote on Tue, 03 February 2015 23:34
On 04/02/15 06:16, Mike Fields wrote:
I would be suspicious of a "newline" vs CR/LF issue -

Not likely to cause what the OP was reporting.

Mac's are basically
Linux based and Linux uses one type of line terminator while
windowz uses
the other

Also not quite true. MacOS-X may be BSD-derived but it retains the
original Mac newline which is different from both Windows and Linux.

I don't know what MacOS does with unicode but that sounds more likely
to
be the cause of the "bunch of crap" reported. However, I'd also be
suspicious of the Mac being "too smart for its own good" and
encrypting
files with a .LBR extension (or prefixing them with a "this is the X86
version" tag), especially if converting to a text file fixed it!

Good points - I was not aware Mac's used yet another line termination
character. I do know in windows, Linux/Unix created files can be opened
in wordpad and they look right and in notepad, it can't handle the
line termination so it all runs together. Definitely time for a file
compare utility to see just what the differences are.

mikey

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0 Former Member over 8 years ago

This is NOT a line termination issue! The Mac file is attached to the first post, and the contents if 99% "unintelligible". And I have resolved the issue. Consider this case closed (and use Eagle to transfer libraries between Mac/PC, not file copy on the Mac!). A SHORT snippet of the file is:

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