When I downloaded the IDE 2.3.4 to my W11 PC, 2 Folders displayed. Arduino IDE and Arduino. The Arduino folder contained the Libraries folder + others.
Downloading to a W10 laptop, only the Arduino folder appeared and it only contained
a GRBL folder. No IDE folder no libraries. The IDE did download into the Programs folder and is available. What am I doing wrong, how do I get a "Libraries" folder??
Should add, I tried 3 times uninstalling and installing with the same result.
What is the full path to your Sketchbook location as seen in the IDE Preferences dialogue ?
C:\Users\John's laptop\Documents\Arduino Just to make it interesting, I tried to open
the Arduino folder from the Program folder and it said the Arduino folder was empty.
So I don't know where the IDE comes from.
The IDE is under c:\Users\John's laptop\arduinoIDE.
You probably did not do anything wrong, it might have been a glitch during the installation.
Just create the libraries folder manually in the sketchbook folder. Or simply install a library, the process will create the libraries folder.
Note
It's libraries with lowercase l.
So my path turns out to be; open the IDE, file, sketchbook, grbl\grbl\grbl\examples\grblupload
which opens another IDE folder which will let me upload GRBL to my UNO on the CNC.
I have what I need so i'm not going to worry why the PC and laptop are so different.
Thanks for your help.
Hi @107merc.
Arduino IDE 2.x does not arbitrarily create the libraries folder under your sketchbook folder. Instead, it creates the folder on demand. So if you install a library using Arduino IDE's "Library Manager" or "Add .ZIP Library..." features then it will automatically create the folder when installing the library. So you don't need to worry that the lack of such a folder is a sign that something is wrong.
The reason you saw a libraries folder on your Windows 11 machine is likely that you used Arduino IDE to install a library on that machine before you looked in the folder. The alternative explanation is that you previously used Arduino IDE 1.x on the machine (Arduino IDE 1.x does automatically create the libraries folder).
Thank you.