SparkFun Forums

[solex]

Hello all,

I have finished my board, used the files in the eagle tutorials and generated the gerbers. But when I look in the folder they are supposed to be in according to the headder of eagle cad there not there!

All I find is eagle.epf :s

Any help would be great!

Charles

[bigglez]

I have finished my board, used the files in the eagle tutorials and generated the gerbers. But when I look in the folder they are supposed to be in according to the headder of eagle cad there not there! All I find is eagle.epf

Greetings Charles,

Are you on a Windows platform? Output files are stored in the
sub-dir where you started the project. An eagle.epf file only
contains the project specific settings.

Go back to the schematic editor and do a "Save as", this will
point to the directory where your outputs goes. Or, do a search
for one of the expected files (*.cmp for example).

A correctly executed project from EAGLE will contain:

*.cmp
*.drd
*.dri
*.drl
*.erc
*.gpi
*.plc
*.pls
*.sch
*.silk
*.sol
*.stc
*.sts

Comments Welcome!

[solex]

Yes I am using windows. I am looking in the sub directory where I have save as 'd the files, but yet its notcoming up...

[bigglez]

Yes I am using windows. I am looking in the sub directory where I have save as 'd the files, but yet its notcoming up...

Greetings Charles,

You should see at least the *.sch, and if you've attempted
a board design the *.brd.

Can you do a windows search for the *.sch and *.brd?

What other files are in the sub dir where EAGLE is pointing?

Comments Welcome!

[solex]

Ive found the files, but they seem to be in

C:\Users\*****\AppData\Local\VirtualStore\Program Files\EAGLE-4.16r2\Projects


Not sure what to touch so I dont loose any thing, any suggestions?

Charles

[bigglez]

Ive found the files, but they seem to be in

C:\Users\*****\AppData\Local\VirtualStore\Program Files\EAGLE-4.16r2\Projects

Not sure what to touch so I dont loose any thing, any suggestions?

Greetings Charles,

Good to hear that you have not lost any work. The place where
EAGLE stores files can be changed to suit your needs.

As you can see, EAGLE spawns many files as the work
progresses, so it's wise to organize your work.

EAGLE provides a folder (sub-dir) structure called Projects.

You should also have a pdf tutorial that will help you
understand how EAGLE works (most of us found it to be
far from intuitive!).

Get a copy of the tutorialhere.

Comments Welcome!

[solex]

Thats the thing, They are "saved" in the normal location, and if I save as in the location there supposed to be in *the place you just refranced* and if i click open it shows me the folder where they are supposed to be but its far from empty if I use windows exporor to look in it, *oer dos for that measure, thought I should check old school *

It seemd like eagle is thinking it is saving and loading from the correct location but is saving and opening from the one I gave you... Will grab my files and reinstall eagle, hope that sorts it out

Thank you for your help

Charles

[Azoore]

It sounds like you're using Vista. Vista prevents programs from writing to protected system folders, such as Program Files. Eagle is one program that does this by default (tisk tisk cadsoft). Instead, Vista will place those saved files in the VirtualStore folder.

[solex]

Yes I am. I stumbled across the default folders settings, so if I reinstall and set these to some where other than Program Files it should be fine?

Thank you both

Charles

[Azoore]

Yep.