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Re: 3D Shapes Libraries Downlader does not work and such

 

Le 26/09/2015 00:11, Nick Østergaard a écrit :
> I forgot to mention this was tested on 4.0.0 RC1 and 6217 on linux.
> But I just figured what was the issue here. I just edited the current
> path in the line by prefixing the path with /tmp and the program did
> not seem to see that this path could be written to (maybe kicad
> expects to only create the child dir and not the parents).
> 
> But a user should definitely be able to just paste a path rather than
> use the browse button.
> 
> 2015-09-26 0:06 GMT+02:00 Nick Østergaard <oe.nick@xxxxxxxxx>:
>> Hi Jean-Pierre
>>
>> I saw you added a 3D Shapes Libraries Downlader quite some time ago
>> but I had not time to test it before now. And the result was not so
>> good. It seems that it does not work for me, I get the attached
>> message when it finishes download a 3d model repo. And sure, there is
>> no content on the disk, not even while it is downloading.
>>
>> I have not debugged the issue further that that.
>>
>> Regards
>> Nick
> 

Are you sure the path built by prefixing the current path with /tmp exists ?
If no, .3dshape library folders cannot be created inside a non existing
path.

The wizard can create .3dshape library folders, but only in an existing
path.


-- 
Jean-Pierre CHARRAS


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