Hi
As stated, moved project and libraries folder suite to new machine. Pointed Arduino software at Projects sketch, but is there an easy way to get the libraries recognized? Or must I download the libraries installed on the old machine?
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The libraries are installed in the libraries subfolder of your sketchbook folder.
If you copy the libraries folder from the sketchbook on the old machine to the sketchbook on the new machine, they will be recognized by the Arduino IDE.
You can find the location of the sketchbook folder by opening File > Preferences in the Arduino IDE and checking the path shown in the "Sketchbook location" field. By default, it is here:
C:\Users\<user name>\Documents\Arduino
After transferring the libraries from the old to the new machine, you will need to restart the Arduino IDE on the new machine if it happens to be running at the time in order for the libraries to show up in the Arduino IDE menus.
Please note that libraries (such as you might install via the Arduino IDE Library Manager) are different from boards platforms (such as you might install via the Arduino IDE Boards Manager) are two different things, even though people sometimes call both of them "libraries". The information I shared above is specific to libraries.
I can provide instructions for transferring boards platforms, but it might be easier to just use Boards Manager to install them on the new machine since usually people only have a few platforms installed.
Okay. Did set the preference, and restart, the Library Manager still doesn't know they're there. Will try again this AM. Good to know I was on the right track, hope I can sort it.
Thanks for the reply, i realize the post was a tad incoherent.
C
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