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Hello,I know we are in feature freeze. It seems a lot of people struggle with the transition from kicad 4 to kicad 5. One of the things that could help a lot would be some way of forcing a reset of the user config directory contents to the default. (cold also help later on if for some reason the config directory got compromised.)
Especially for the fp-lib-table. It is really not obvious to a lot of people using the official library that this one would need to be reset after updating from kicad 4 to kicad 5. (The files for the official symbol and 3d libraries are updated. The sym-lib-table is "updated" as it never existed before. Meaning without user intervention the footprint library will be out of sync with all other types of libraries.)
I think a message in the installer should be the least that should be done. (But that one will only work where kicad has a specific installation tool.)
A message on first run of kicad 5 might be even better (maybe the message stating that the default sym-lib-table has been introduced could hint at the fact that the fp-lib-table might need resetting as well. Or a message with a tick-mark "do not show again".)
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