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[Dick Hollenbeck <dick@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I'm pretty sure versions newer than 2014-05-31 would tell you where it was looking for the
template file, with a popup window.

I've worked the last two days on project related improvements and should have those
committed within a couple of days.  I suggest upgrading in about a week.

Until then you might be able to use the programs individually, outside the kicad(exe), by
running pcbnew and eeschema directly.

The Kiway architectural changes were most dramatic WRT to project management.
Architectural changes are more dramatic than individual enhancements.

I've found it difficult to spend time on KiCad recently, but did so the last two days.

In general if you are going to navigate a storm, you want to be in a fast car.  That
means, that unless you can build your own binaries, you will not be master of your own
destiny.  And of the three platforms, windows, linux and mac, you are using the one with
the most grief WRT KiCad support.


Dick




On 07/26/2014 05:50 PM, Jake wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm running kicad (2014-05-31 BZR 4902)-product on MacOS from a build I 
> downloaded and i'm having a serious problem.
> 
> It's been working fine for a while, i have made boards and done some work 
> with it.  But i was never able to create a new project, either blank or 
> from a template.  It always said "Error:  Can't find kicad.pro" or 
> something like that.  (Sorry, it doesn't allow me to copy text from the 
> error dialog for some reason, although i can highlight the text)
> 
> but today I was asking on IRC where i'm supposed to find or put kicad.pro 
> on the mac, and to describe the error i tried again to make a new project 
> and it gave me the error "Info    Project template file <kicad.pro> not 
> found."
> 
> and then i quit kicad thinking nothing had changed.  But now, if i try to 
> open kicad, it just says "Error Unable to find kicad.pro template config 
> file." and clicking OK just repeats the error.  If you hold down the enter 
> key, it clicks OK 30 times a second.  Forever.
> 
> all the menus are greyed out, there's no option to quit or open a 
> different project or anything.  I have to force-quit kicad from the 
> operating system (command-option-escape) which is like kill -9
> 
> help!  i have no idea what to do, or what config file got changed or what.
> 
> help?
> 
> -jake