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asti
07-31-2006, 07:01 PM
Hello fellow collegues,

We are using an old version of Cadstar (v5) and just recently I experienced an unexpected error. The pcb.lib gets corrupted whenever I attempted to save a new component. When the error is commited, the pcb.lib cannot be opened anymore.I noticed that a pcb.bak is generated whenever the error occur. When I rename the file to pcb.lib i can open the pcb.lib again.

Is there a limitation on the number of library components that can be saved? Or is it a limitation in the file size of the pcb.lib. As of now Im having hard time figuring out how can i deal with this. I need to create new components. I tried to create a new library. It worked fine but only to the new parts i created. The problem is that the other parts (previously created) that have reference to the pcb.lib cannot locate the components (since i have to set the default component library to the new component library i created).

Im thinking of creating project specific library. But this would mean creating new parts again :( which will involve importing some components to new components library. Whew!

Anyone who has experience on this? How are you able to deal with this?

Many thanks :)

nsreekanth9724
08-03-2006, 04:02 AM
Hi,

Try to archive the pcb lib & import to a fresh library .
If it dsn't work out, Open that library with wordpad and see any problem with the format,if so ,delete that particular component descryption(in wordpad).Save it and try to import to a fresh library.

By the way what error it shows?

Or if you can send me the pcb.lib i can try repair here and send you back?

nsreekanth@engineer.com

Regards,
Sreekanth N Nampoothiri.

asti
08-03-2006, 07:41 PM
Hi,

Try to archive the pcb lib & import to a fresh library .
If it dsn't work out, Open that library with wordpad and see any problem with the format,if so ,delete that particular component descryption(in wordpad).Save it and try to import to a fresh library.

By the way what error it shows?

Or if you can send me the pcb.lib i can try repair here and send you back?

nsreekanth@engineer.com

Regards,
Sreekanth N Nampoothiri.
thanks for your reply. i also suspect that there is a problematic item in my library but i just dont know how to fix it.

what happens is that when i save a component the Cadstar will crash saying "dsesedit.exe has generated errors and will be closed by Windows. An error log is being created" then the pcb.lib cannot be opened in Cadstar. What i do is i use the pcb.bak to restore the library.

I cant find the error log being referred to?

nsreekanth9724
08-07-2006, 10:30 PM
pls send me the pcblib file to
nsreekanth@engineer.com