Error in loading footprint

[ordan_harini_krishna]

Hi,
hope you are doing good.
I am using kicad for designing PCB for our application.
I am unable to find the generic footprints and i see a message saying
“error in loading footprint” with list of all generic footprints.
how do fix this issue?

[eelik]

Try to track down the problem by reading some basic information about the library setup, Library management in KiCad version 5.

• Are the libraries installed?
• Do the path variables point to the correct places?

[SembazuruCDE]

Also, you don’t give what version of KiCad you are using and what platform. Go to the About window in KiCad and use the button to copy the version info to the clipboard (On my 5.1.7 in English the button is labeled “Copy Version Info”.). Then paste the results here.

If you are on Linux (I’m not so I’m just going by recollections of past conversations here), you may need to also install the libraries in addition to the main KiCad package.

[ordan_harini_krishna]

Application: KiCad
Version: (5.1.7)-1, release build
Libraries:
wxWidgets 3.0.5
libcurl/7.71.0 OpenSSL/1.1.1g (Schannel) zlib/1.2.11 brotli/1.0.7 libidn2/2.3.0 libpsl/0.21.0 (+libidn2/2.3.0) libssh2/1.9.0 nghttp2/1.41.0
Platform: Windows 8 (build 9200), 64-bit edition, 64 bit, Little endian, wxMSW
Build Info:
wxWidgets: 3.0.5 (wchar_t,wx containers,compatible with 2.8)
Boost: 1.73.0
OpenCASCADE Community Edition: 6.9.1
Curl: 7.71.0
Compiler: GCC 10.2.0 with C++ ABI 1014

Build settings:
USE_WX_GRAPHICS_CONTEXT=OFF
USE_WX_OVERLAY=OFF
KICAD_SCRIPTING=ON
KICAD_SCRIPTING_MODULES=ON
KICAD_SCRIPTING_PYTHON3=OFF
KICAD_SCRIPTING_WXPYTHON=ON
KICAD_SCRIPTING_WXPYTHON_PHOENIX=OFF
KICAD_SCRIPTING_ACTION_MENU=ON
BUILD_GITHUB_PLUGIN=ON
KICAD_USE_OCE=ON
KICAD_USE_OCC=OFF
KICAD_SPICE=ON

[SembazuruCDE]

Ok, have you ever had v4 installed on that machine? If so stale settings may be left behind. See this FAQ entry (also linked by @eelik above):

I had KiCad 4 installed previosly. Now i updated to v5. Now i have some problems with the library setup

Recommended reading: Library management in KiCad version 5 KiCad does not automatically discover libs. Nor does it update the list of libraries on update. If you had KiCad 4.0.x installed previously then i would bet you still have parts of its configuration surviving. Most importantly the fp-lib-table. This file controls which footprint libs you use. If this is the case then you probably still run the on demand online footprint libs originally “distributed” with KiCad 4.0.x installations. The …

And my suggestion for a procedure in this post (note some of the follow up conversation):

KiCad 5.0 should I upgrade from 4.07?

V5 can read V4 libraries no problem. The biggest hurdle to upgrading to V5 is the supplied libraries have been reorganized so any pointers to where a symbol or footprint in V4 is likely to be different in V5. Coupled with the upgrade process doesn’t touch your user settings, most of the problems are with old library settings pointing to libraries that have been renamed due to the reorganization. It isn’t so bad on the PCB (except for pointing to the 3D objects, but you have stated that isn’t a …

If not that, when installing on Windows you are given the option to not install libraries. Maybe try reinstalling making sure that the only install setting that is turned off is the environment variables one.

[Rene_Poschl]

The answers above are generic because we are left in the dark. You really need to give us the full error information. (So at least a screenshot of the error window or possibly copy the content and then format it nicely. The latter has the benefit that somebody can search for the error message and get pointed to the forum.)

[Mediser]

A screenshot would give a clear understanding of what happened and what needs to be done.

[ordan_harini_krishna]

Hi,
Hope you are good.
sorry for the late reply.
here is the error which i see

[ordan_harini_krishna]

i see that the path for the files are a bit weird. all i could do for my project is replace the path for required footprints.
like image given below

should I do it for all of them manually or is there any way?

[Rene_Poschl]

It seems there is an “s” missing in the KISYSMOD variable. (your working paths are use modules while the non working ones use module)

Path variables are set in preferences -> configure paths (in the kicad main window, a similar entry should also exist in all other windows) . Adding the “s” at the end of the path for KISYSMOD should fix your issue.

[ordan_harini_krishna]

this helped.
Thanks a lot