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[Andy Peters <devel@xxxxxxxxx>]

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> On 29 Dec 2017 10:25 AM, "Andy Peters" <devel@xxxxxxxxx <mailto:devel@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
> On Nov 18, 2017, at 6:07 AM, Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx <mailto:stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
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>> 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
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> 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.
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> -a

> On Dec 28, 2017, at 6:50 PM, Oliver Walters <oliver.henry.walters@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> This "policy" is already in place for the libraries - http://kicad-pcb.org/libraries/klc/G1.1/ <http://kicad-pcb.org/libraries/klc/G1.1/>
Ah, OK, that settles it.

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