Having problems with creating/adding my own library

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I'm using Arduino (IDE v0022) for the very 1st time.
I want to add my own library to a sketch.
I followed this tutorial: http://arduino.cc/en/Hacking/LibraryTutorial
but the Sketch > Import Library menu never lists my lib, even after restarting the IDE, etc.
Any ideas?
Sketch & lib are attached.
Thanks!

TestSketch.zip (984 Bytes)

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Empty sketch file in the zip?

Many problems are where and how you store your library folder and files. For user libraries they need to be stored in the users sketch folder in a folder named libraries. There you store a folder with the library name and it's .h and .cpp files. Here is what my windows user library structure looks like:

C:\Documents and Settings\Primary Windows User\My Documents\Arduino\libraries

10 Folders:

Button
DS1307
Flash
MsTimer2
Playtune
Streaming
String
Tone
WString
__MACOSX

0 Files:

Lefty

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I believe that's how I've arranged the lib dirs.
My sketch was indeed empty; the attached TestSketch2.zip corrects that.

TestSketch2.zip (1.17 KB)

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Ahhh... you mean there's a single "libraries" folder under the sketchbook dir which is shared by all sketches!
Docs were ambiguous, seemed to indicate that the library dir was below the particular sketch-dir.
I moved the libraries dir to the sketchdir root and it now appears in the list.
Thanks!