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[Andy Peters <devel@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Nov 18, 2017, at 6:07 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.

Hi, Wayne,

I just ran into this problem. (I’m using the Dec 24 nightly on a High Sierra Mac.) The thing is that my libraries are in a directory to which Kicad should have write access. On my Mac, they’re at ~/Library/Application Support/kicad/library

The three parts in my library that use a forward-slash in the name are new for a design I am still working on, so renaming them in the library and then replacing the components on the schematic from the library isn’t too painful. That said: should “policy” going forward be to simply not have slashes in part names? I guess this is probably wise, since as I understand it, the .sweet format will be like .pretty with one symbol per file and the file’s name is the symbol name.

-a

> 
> 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>
>> <mailto:oe.nick@xxxxxxxxx <mailto:oe.nick@xxxxxxxxx>>> wrote:
>> 
>>    See https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1732236 <https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1732236>
>>    <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> <mailto: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/>
>>        <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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