Copying symbols & footprints

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I currently have KiCAD 7 installed on my Win10 machine and I love it. I have another Win10 machine that I also want to use for doing the autorouting work. I was able to save the symbols I created and copy those to the new machine, but the ‘save as’ for the footprint directory I created, is greyed out to where I can’t do the same thing. I’m trying to figure out what I’m overlooking in getting the footprints I created copied to the new machine. Any ideas? Thanks

BTW, Is there a ‘public repository’ where I could provide the stuff I have done for others to use?

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I do not understand this:

When you have a footprint library it is already on your disk, and you can use normal file management to copy it. There is no need to do this with KiCad. Also to avoid ambiguity, use the same terms are KiCad uses in it’s menu’s

Any site that works with GIT repositories?
Hackaday also has a section for user projects. Instructables is yet another option.

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Well, I highlight the footprint library I created:

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And ‘Save As’ is greyed out:

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Also, ‘save as’ is the term that KiCAD uses as well. You said ‘normal file management’, so I have to assume you are referring to a plain old file copy. That would work, but I do not know where the footprint files I created actually get stored.

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Personally created footprint files need to be stored by you, somewhere on your OS.
Please read this FAQ for a full explanation.

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Yes indeed. You must have created it yourself, and the link posted by jmk should have all the info you need. If that fails, you can search for the library name on your OS.

That’s for individual footprints, to copy them from one library to another.