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[Dick Hollenbeck <dick@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 07/17/2014 06:03 AM, José Eduardo S. C. Xavier wrote:
> Hi again,
> I'm getting again this error
> 
>     Errors were encountered loading footprints
>     IO_ERROR: https GET command failed
>     Cannot get/download Zip archive:
>     'https://codeload.github.com/KiCad/Capacitors.pretty/zip/master'
>     for library path: 'https://github.com/KiCad/Capacitors.pretty'.
>     Reason: 'Not found'
>     from /home/ze/Development/kicad_sources/kicad.bzr/pcbnew/github/github_plugin.cpp :
>     remote_get_zip() : line 548
>     IO_ERROR: https GET command failed
>     Cannot get/download Zip archive: 'https://codeload.github.com/KiCad/Iut.pretty/zip/master'
>     for library path: 'https://github.com/KiCad/Iut.pretty'.
>     Reason: 'Not found'
>     from /home/ze/Development/kicad_sources/kicad.bzr/pcbnew/github/github_plugin.cpp :
>     remote_get_zip() : line 548 
> 
> 
> 
> 2014-03-04 15:35 GMT+00:00 José Eduardo S. C. Xavier <josescxavier@xxxxxxxxxxx
> <mailto:josescxavier@xxxxxxxxxxx>>:
> 
>     Thank you for the explanation :)
> 
> 
>     2014-03-04 14:22 GMT+00:00 Dick Hollenbeck <dick@xxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:dick@xxxxxxxxxxx>>:
> 
>         OK, last thoughts.
> 
>         What about having a very reduced number of libraries in the global table, but ones you
>         know you need on every project.


Carl does us all good by maintaining a full one here:

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/KiCad/kicad-library/master/template/fp-lib-table.for-github

<bookmark that>


But of course you do not need to use his, you can use an abbreviated one for speed
purposes, as said some time ago.



> 
> 
>         Then, in one dummy project, you have all the libraries known to man in the project
>         specific table.  This means its big and slow, but you don't work there.  It is
>         only used
>         for library browsing.
> 
>         You have this dummy project so you can copy rows from the dummy project's project
>         specific
>         table, to other projects' project specific tables.  You can simply click on a row,
>         and do
>         ctrl-C or right mouse click and do copy.
> 
>         Then simply create a blank row in the recipient table, and do ctrl-V or right
>         click paste.
> 
> 
>         I have not tried this, but it seems workable and I will be doing so soon.
> 
> 
>         Dick
> 
> 
> 
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