KiCAD 5 workflow broken (Library files

[CM800]

Hi All,

I have had a second file in my dropbox which contains all my custom libraries, this is linked through so that I can access my custom parts from work, home & laptop.

The new system doesn't seem to allow me to add this file in.

What's going on here? this is really not good.

[Bassman59]

Hi All,

I have had a second file in my dropbox which contains all my custom libraries, this is linked through so that I can access my custom parts from work, home & laptop.

The new system doesn't seem to allow me to add this file in.

What's going on here? this is really not good.

Need more info. What OS?

[CM800]

Hi All,

I have had a second file in my dropbox which contains all my custom libraries, this is linked through so that I can access my custom parts from work, home & laptop.

The new system doesn't seem to allow me to add this file in.

What's going on here? this is really not good.

Need more info. What OS?

Running Winblows 10 with 'Oogle Drive

[donotdespisethesnake]

I have had a second file in my dropbox which contains all my custom libraries

Do you mean a folder containing libraries?

Jus a wild guess but you probably need to add the symbol libraries to the symbol table.

[CM800]

Dang,

i just wanted to include the whole folder of libraries like you used to be able to.

[donotdespisethesnake]

In the symbol library manager, click "open"
select the libs you want
press OK

Not hard.

Tip: in your file explorer, search for "*.lib" then select all the search results.

[G0MJW]

5.0.0 is completely broken for me under Windows 10. On a fresh install, the libraries are all completely empty, though the actual files are there. I assume this is some conflict with the removed previous version 4 but I have no idea what. It really ought to work with a fresh install!

EDIT - DAMN Microsoft and their idiot programmers. There was a kicad file in users/.../Appdata/roaming/kicad that prevented V5 from doing it's first run setup.

How I hate Microsoft for doing this. Making such a useless system that purposefully puts stuff in the wrong place. If I had a $100Bn I would buy them out and sack all of them. Every single one.

[hermit]

I don't do windows.   But.  When I installed 5 I moved my config directory out of the way as a backup and did the reinstall.  I think it is an fp-lib-tables thing.  Don't quote me but on Windows there is something like a C:\users\whoever\roaming? that has the configuration files.

[SiliconWizard]

I think this is what I mentioned here: https://www.eevblog.com/forum/kicad/footprint-association-tool/msg1659884/#msg1659884
(and that nobody seems to know about or is willing to tell you although it happens to a lot of KiCad users that are upgrading).

This is not a Windows problem whatsoever IMO. The same issue arises on Linux. This is the fact that KiCad's installer doesn't do squat to help migrating your user options and that KiCad stores libraries paths and info in the user options.

[SiliconWizard]

I think it is an fp-lib-tables thing.  Don't quote me but on Windows there is something like a C:\users\whoever\roaming? that has the configuration files.

Yes, as I mentioned in the post I linked to above, this is in  'C:\Users\XXX\AppData\Roaming\kicad'. On Linux, it's in your home directory, usually under '.config/kicad'.

Remove the 'fp-lib-table' and 'sym-lib-table' files. You may also delete the whole directory but then you'll lose all your previous settings. Don't know if it really matters or not as they tend to change from major version to major version in sometimes unexpected ways, so starting from fresh user options might be a safer bet.