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[Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>]

Exactly how much hand holding is KiCad expected to do?  There is already
a "save the current library as" command in the file menu of both the
symbol and footprint library editors.  There is a small bug in that
grays out the command until you load a symbol but it allows you to save
any library to a folder that the user has write access to and modify it
at will without changing the originally installed libraries which IMO is
a good thing.  Of course you could do a good old fashion file copy or
git clone or ...  How many ways to we really need to perform this one
simple task or am I completely missing something.

On 11/08/2017 06:15 PM, Simon Wells wrote:
> ideally if someone tried to save to a bundled library there should be something that pops up and says you can't/shouldn't and then offers to do most if not all of that for you, however i would prefer to see it only saving the footprint to userdir, i think you will find this is how most other software would handle a similar circumstance
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>> On 9/11/2017, at 12:12, easyw <easyw@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>>> I think it's a far more risky that a user makes accidental changes to the
>>> bundled library. Simple users should not need to touch it, and should
>>> rather copy or make a new part.
>>
>> so if a user wants to add a missing parts to his/her library he/her needs to save it to a different location, close the i.e. fp editor, copy with administrative privileges the fp to the Admin folder and restart the sw to use it?
>> I don't think other sw are using this procedure...
>> This is just my opinion...
>>
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