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[José Ignacio <jose.cyborg@xxxxxxxxx>]

This is pretty much the same issue that happened back in February (
https://lists.launchpad.net/kicad-developers/msg27766.html ) I don't have
my launchpad logins right now to comment on it but I strongly disagree with
classifying bug #1732236 <https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1732236> as a low
priority. I can tell you it breaks dozens of my current designs, that is, I
can't even open them without doing some surgery to both the schematics and
libraries. I though KiCAD was supposed to be able to open designs of the
previous version?

I've not looked at what the fix was when this came up in February, but is
there a reason something similar couldn't be done now for the legacy
plugin? PCB files didn't break like this because the footprints were
embedded, eeschema now can't even load symbols from the cache if they have
slashes.

On Sat, Nov 18, 2017 at 7:07 AM, Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> Diego,
>
> Thank you for the offer but I'm already working on it.  It is not as
> easy to fix as it would seem.  The problem is what to do when you do not
> have write access to the library with the invalid characters.  I have a
> few ideas but it will take me a while to get it the way I want it.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Wayne
>
> On 11/18/2017 08:00 AM, Diego Herranz wrote:
> > Thanks. I'll chase that bug.
> >
> > Diego
> >
> > On 18 Nov 2017 11:35 am, "Nick Østergaard" <oe.nick@xxxxxxxxx
> > <mailto:oe.nick@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
> >
> >     See https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1732236
> >     <https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1732236>
> >
> >     2017-11-18 11:42 GMT+01:00 Diego Herranz
> >     <diegoherranz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:diegoherranz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >>:
> >
> >         Hi,
> >
> >         I'm testing a recent build (41f9c19b) on Ubuntu 16.04 64 bits.
> >
> >         When opening a schematic made with a nightly build ~2 months
> >         old, the remapping dialog shows up. So far so good.
> >
> >         I've followed the recommendations
> >         in http://kicad-pcb.org/post/symbol-lib-table/
> >         <http://kicad-pcb.org/post/symbol-lib-table/> and most things
> >         seem to be working fine. Every symbol gets remapped but 2. Both
> >         of which include '/' in their name (e.g. PIC32MX110F016D-I/PT).
> >
> >         Opening the schematic after the remap, it seems Kicad has
> >         changed it to PIC32MX110F016D-I_PT.
> >
> >         In fact, after a bit more searching, I've found out that as soon
> >         as the remapping dialog shows up, before clicking on "Remap
> >         symbols" the '/' characters have been replaced to '_'. So I'm
> >         guessing that is the reason why it can't find the symbols when
> >         remapping?
> >         "Warning: No symbol 'PIC32MX110F016D-I_PT' found in symbol
> >         library table." confirms that the name was changed before the
> >         remapping attempt.
> >
> >         I have then tried to edit the broken symbols in Eeschema. When I
> >         try to assign "PIC32MX110F016D-I/PT" again, which can be found
> >         through the "Choose Symbol" dialog without problems, it
> complains:
> >         " Symbol 'PIC32MX1XXFXXXD-I_PT' not found in library
> >         'MCU_Microchip_PIC32'! "
> >
> >         Am I doing something wrong? Is this a bug?
> >
> >         Many thanks,
> >         Diego
> >
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