My recent experience with One Drive is that it is clunky, and does all sorts of weird things to your file access for at leat 10 days. At one point, it deleted about half my Desktop short-cuts, of which I have many.  It put them back two days later, scattered at random among those that were not deleted. Welcome to the Microsoft Brave New World. You can also see, maybe, that Microsoft keeps updating it, showing that it's fragile.

Long explanation below, but here’s what I am trying to do:

In a local folder where all my personal LTspice projects and libs reside, I have

Potmet.asy

Potmet.cir

As below, I cannot access those from within LTspice where I’m editing a model.

I can add .include Potme.cir without errors, but how can I insert Potmet.asy, since I can’t pull it up under F2?

 

 

Within the last few days, I have “lost” access to my local \Documents\LTspiceXVII subfolders.

This appears to be due to the Company migrating users to OneDrive, with some possible (temporary?) sync errors.

 

From windows explorer, I have \Documents\LTspiceXVII\MySymbols, but that folder and apparently none of the others appear in OneDrive.

 

In LTspice Tools > sym & lib search paths, I only have “.” and “C:\Users\dbell5\Documents\LTSpice\LTspiceXVII”

When I try to add C:\Users\dbell5\Documents\LTSpice\LTspiceXVII\MySymbols it throws an error, saying that path does not exist.

Adding it anyway, or NOT, when I go to F2 and pull down the search paths, the added paths are missing.

 

Dave

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Your IT people might be able to get them back. They are probably not erased, just hidden. But you might have to keep them on a USB stick or elsewhere that OneDrive doesn't get its claws on.

I fully agree, but we are absolutely stuck with it.

Another case in point, in Outlook, I had several Personal Folders, as .pst files, under \Documents.

After migration, all .psts f’ing vanished, as they “are not permitted in OneDrive”!

YEARS worth of email history that I considered important enough to keep, gone.

 

From: LTspice@groups.io <LTspice@groups.io> On Behalf Of John Woodgate
Sent: Thursday, December 19, 2024 1:57 PM
To: LTspice@groups.io
Subject: EXTERNAL: Re: [LTspice] Placing a Symbol and its .cir "Manually" into a schematic

 

My recent experience with One Drive is that it is clunky, and does all sorts of weird things to your file access for at leat 10 days. At one point, it deleted about half my Desktop short-cuts, of which I have many.  It put them back two days later, scattered at random among those that were not deleted. Welcome to the Microsoft Brave New World. You can also see, maybe, that Microsoft keeps updating it, showing that it's fragile.

On 2024-12-19 21:29, Bell, Dave via groups.io wrote:

Long explanation below, but here’s what I am trying to do:

In a local folder where all my personal LTspice projects and libs reside, I have

Potmet.asy

Potmet.cir

As below, I cannot access those from within LTspice where I’m editing a model.

I can add .include Potme.cir without errors, but how can I insert Potmet.asy, since I can’t pull it up under F2?

 

 

Within the last few days, I have “lost” access to my local \Documents\LTspiceXVII subfolders.

This appears to be due to the Company migrating users to OneDrive, with some possible (temporary?) sync errors.

 

From windows explorer, I have \Documents\LTspiceXVII\MySymbols, but that folder and apparently none of the others appear in OneDrive.

 

In LTspice Tools > sym & lib search paths, I only have “.” and “C:\Users\dbell5\Documents\LTSpice\LTspiceXVII”

When I try to add C:\Users\dbell5\Documents\LTSpice\LTspiceXVII\MySymbols it throws an error, saying that path does not exist.

Adding it anyway, or NOT, when I go to F2 and pull down the search paths, the added paths are missing.

 

Dave

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John Woodgate

Keep trying

 

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Long explanation below, but here’s what I am trying to do:

In a local folder where all my personal LTspice projects and libs reside, I have

Potmet.asy

Potmet.cir

As below, I cannot access those from within LTspice where I’m editing a model.

I can add .include Potme.cir without errors, but how can I insert Potmet.asy, since I can’t pull it up under F2?

 

 

Within the last few days, I have “lost” access to my local \Documents\LTspiceXVII subfolders.

This appears to be due to the Company migrating users to OneDrive, with some possible (temporary?) sync errors.

 

From windows explorer, I have \Documents\LTspiceXVII\MySymbols, but that folder and apparently none of the others appear in OneDrive.

 

In LTspice Tools > sym & lib search paths, I only have “.” and “C:\Users\dbell5\Documents\LTSpice\LTspiceXVII”

When I try to add C:\Users\dbell5\Documents\LTSpice\LTspiceXVII\MySymbols it throws an error, saying that path does not exist.

Adding it anyway, or NOT, when I go to F2 and pull down the search paths, the added paths are missing.

You should be able to bring up the current folder from F2 by selecting it from the "Top Directory" drop-down selector at the top of the dialogue.

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