Switching from Eagle
Your Eagle library, imported in one step. Eagle keeps working meanwhile, and nothing in it is touched.
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In short
- Quit Eagle.
- At Teserra's welcome, choose From another app and pick your .library folder.
- Confirm. Originals are copied; your Eagle library is not touched.
What comes along
- Folders become collections, nested as they were.
- Tags stay tags. Names become titles, notes become descriptions.
- Palettes and dates: the day you added something to Eagle stays its import date in Teserra.
- Left behind: items in Eagle's trash, star ratings and source URLs. For now only images come along; videos, PDFs, SVG files and fonts stay in Eagle.
How
- Quit Eagle, so the library is not being written to.
- In Teserra, at the welcome screen, choose From another app.
- Pick your .library folder (the one that contains
metadata.json). Teserra recognizes it and tells you what it found. - Confirm. Originals are copied into your vault; your Eagle library is not modified.
Into a library you already use, File → Import Folder… on the same .library folder starts the import straight away, with no summary first.
Time and space. A large library takes a few minutes, thumbnails included. Your vault will roughly match the size of your Eagle library, so check the destination disk first.
What is different afterwards
Your files are ordinary files in ordinary folders, with a small text sidecar next to each one. There is no proprietary database holding them: the SQLite file Teserra keeps is a cache, rebuilt from the folder on demand. Where your files live
Two Eagle habits have Teserra equivalents: Smart folders are among the ideas we are exploring, as collections that fill themselves; browser extensions exist for Chrome, Firefox and Safari. Full comparison