Dan Andersson wrote: Hiya, This is a "house keeping" question I assume been vented before, I didn't find an answer so here it is again. After spending a lot of time designing new sympols for my kicad installation, the created symbols and footprint info tend to dissapear everytim there are a new version of kicad installed. Is there any good and recommended procedure to secure added symbols or do I need to mess around with manual backups?!
This may well depend on wether you use the Linux or Windows version. On Linux, the Kicad libraries are in a directory that normal users symbols they have to be kept somewhere you have write acces to - usually under your user directory. So if you update Kicad your own libraries are unaffected. Under Windows, users generally have write access to the directories where Kicad is saved. So it is easy to create and storo your own libraries in this same directory. The danger is these could be overwritten when Kicad is upgraded. I would therefore advise you keep all your own libraries, and indeed all your Kicad user files, in a separate directory. Ian The first rule should be do not modify a Kicad library, but instead create your own, with an other name, event if the component source is get from a Kicad library. So your file will never overwritten when you upgrade Kicad. Do not forget to add your library to your project. Danilo Uccelli For Windows versions, it would be interesting to have a possibility to keep "home made" symbols in a separate directory (example D:Kicad\MyLibs ). This would be useful in order to save these symbols and spare a lot of time during "KiCad High Frequency :-o) updates". In this case, a "KiCad options" file could be useful. It seem to be impossible to use a modified \Template\kicad.pro file to do this. Rémy Please read the Kicad FAQ in the group files section before posting your question. Please post your bug reports here. They will be picked up by the creator of Kicad. Please contribute your symbols/modules to the library folder in the group files section. For building Kicad from source and other development questions visit the kicad-devel group at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/kicad-devel Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/kicad-users/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
