Hi all. I am not an Eagle power user, and I have learned a lot here. I am having a problem with the operation of Eagle on a new computer with Windows XP. I installed 4.16r2 on my new computer. At first everything was fine. When I clicked on “add” the entire list of libraries appeared. This is the same way it had worked on my old computer. Today, I opened it up and clicked on “add” and there were no libraries showing! I had to click on “libraries use” to get some installed. After I install them and exit, I have to go through the same process each time I power up.
Here are the questions: 1) why did the operation change? 2) What is the normal way Eagle is supposed to operate? 3) Is there a way to save the installed libraries so I don’t have to do it every time?
Is it something to do with whether or not a project is “open” and libraries are in “use” from the control panel? I’ve found that I can open a project (and not simply open the files in the project) and pick which libraries are used, and Eagle wll remember that for that specific project. Or in other words, which librarires are available in the editors can be configured on a per-project basis.
Thank you all for the posts. It got me thinking about what happened. As best I recall, some time after I installed Eagle, I looked at the Project examples. Eagle got it into its head that it would make that the default directory on power up. I was unable to teach it other wise. As Lucien pointed out there are no libraries selected for this project, hence my having to add them for use.
I was able to convince Eagle to stop doing this by deleting the project folder. Then like magic it started working like it used to with all the libraries showing on power up.
In the process I made a new library folder and copied the ones I use most into it. Then linked it in on the directory path. Now I am a happy camper.