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[Kristoffer Ödmark <kristofferodmark90@xxxxxxxxx>]

Personally I think this is a nice solution

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-3u-eixTrMbI/VDWb25kPNkI/AAAAAAAAA-g/0qn7ehRq4Mo/s1600/ReadOnly.PNG

Very helpful, instead of the "Edit document" button, there could be 
something such as "Copy to user-library for edit".

- Kristoffer

On 11/09/2017 02:02 AM, Wayne Stambaugh wrote:
> Would a dialog asking if you want to save a modified library that is
> read only to a new folder be an acceptable solution?  If so, please file
> a bug report and set its status to wish list.  I'm not sure when someone
> will get around to it but at least we will have a record of it.
>
> On 11/8/2017 7:07 PM, Simon Wells wrote:
> > i wouldn't particularly call it handholding but i do believe its something that should be automatically done by kicad if we are to continue bundling such a number of libraries. The extra command in the toolbar is not particularly obvious unless you already know about it or it is pointed out to you, i would almost prefer it to be something that is not a specific command and the code is only used when you go to save to a system library. although it should notify/warn that it is a system library and due to this will be copied into your local user library/dir
> >
> >
> > > On 9/11/2017, at 13:04, Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >
> > > 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
> > > >
> > > > > 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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