I'm working on a board layout with Eagle. I tried to open the file today and get a message "error reading file". No other info besides that and I haven't been able to find anything about this. It does this with both the .sch and .brd files. Any ideas?
Electronic – Eagle project wont open, “Error reading file”
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Best Answer
If it is a recent Eagle version, you may open the .brd and .sch files with a text viewer, because they are basically xml text files. This may give you a clue of what is happening or a way to fix it.
BTW, eagle also keeps a few backups (exact number is configurable) of the last saves.
For example, .sch backups will look like this:
Similary, .brd backups will look like this:
And even library backups (previous saves) will look as follows: