Two days ago I was having some library issues, I was able to creat directories, I’ve got everything together in the main list. I also went to the lbr folder in the main eagle folder and removed all the different folders there (some zip some regular) merged all the files from them and moved all that into the main eagle lbr folder. Doing that cleaned up the folders appearing at the top of the lists in eagle, everything is individual stuff grouped by the library only, not by any other folders like “ltspice” or the one from E14, only folder is my one “shit I use”.
If you just want it all together in one list open the main folder, take out any other folders in it, move/uncompress the files from all the ones you have just removed into the main folder so there is only .lbr files in there, that will get rid of any sub folders in the in-program views.
Yeah when you “use all” it get’s cluster humped FAST!
I do a search for the IC package type if I need something I know I need to put on the board…I let it sort thru the BS, and there is ALOT that comes stock with Eagle
Bringing this back up, I’ve got a pretty nice library together, I put all my parts I make into one .lbr called “dan” so they’re all right there and I dont have to go digging for different stuff all around. I also have LED+ pad’s and spring / battery contact pad’s and crap like that, makes it easier to route on the board.
Anyway whats the best / easiest way to host files like this? Maybe google hosting or possible gitHUB (never used either of those). I have a drop box, maybe I’ll try that out. I’ll look and see what I have access to / can sign up for easiest and get my “dan.lbr” hosted in the next day or so.
I recently came across a site called tinyupload.com It lets you upload files up to 50 MB long. Does not require any signup, etc.
There are a few inconsistencies in their published info. One place says 40 MB limit. One place says files deleted after 6 months of no accesses and another says files are permanent.
Ok I need some help guys, I cant find my .lbr file on my computer, eagle can use it (access it / edit components, even mane new components and save them) but I can not find it looking threw my computer to host it on dropbox. WTH?!
I’m looking in the eagle folder in the program files as well as my eagle folder in the users folder where I keep my projects, even a search of my computer net’s nothing. what the hell is up with that?
Open Eagle: this will open the Control Panel window. Highlight your library in the Control Panel. Look at the very bottom of the window - the path to your file is displayed at the very bottom. For example, C:\EAGLE-7.1.0\lbr\adafruit.lbr
That’s where I was / am looking, apparently I’m not alone in having this problem, I found mention of this “bug” on several different forums, several linked to this thread on E14 with a solution
Here’s my file, its got lots of wire pad’s / via’s, its got spring pad’s (8mm, 8 but with only 5mm exposed, 5mm). There is another set of battery pad’s, this was when I needed to make a buck driver with one + and one - pad to make a cell connection. My version of 7135, my SOD-323 with slightly oversized (a little extra heigth) pad’s. some PIC parts, the parts needed for BU_CK and RGBW_Clicky and some other crap.
can someone download it and verify it opens for me please.
Other than mine my next most used library is supply.lbr in the E14 download’s, thats where I get my GND symbol and other crap (I use my own batt+ / Vin)
Edit:
Yes got it solved, I’m not sure why my .lbr wasnt visible in windows, I was looking in the exact directory that path told me to but my file was NOT in there, even on a whole hard drive search my file was nowhere to be found. I followed the instructions in that thread to copy and paste to the desktop and was able to get it to show up that way.
I downloaded your LBR file and glanced at it in Wordpad. Looks fine to me.
As to why it’s not showing up, it’s probably an attribute problem - hidden is the common culprit. You may paste this into your “Run” prompt in order to see if the file is listed, use ENTER or SPACE to page through the results:
cmd /K "dir /a C:\EAGLE-7.1.0\lbr\ | more"
or to check the attributes on that particular file, use this:
cmd /K "attrib C:\EAGLE-7.1.0\lbr\dan.lbr"
A normal file will show:
A C:\xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxwhateverxxxx
Whereas a file with the hidden and system attributes would show:
I think that the contents of this LBR are based on a combination of things from the regular Eagle distribution and Robert Star’s LBR-EX parts library. robertstarr (Bob Starr) · GitHub
