Exporting symbol and footprint libraries in sync

[topherbuckley]

@mf_ibfeew I’m unfortunately getting a Segmentation fault (core dumped) error and KiCAD crashes at the end of this step:

@mf_ibfeew

• first make sure to use local copies of the schematic/board drawing sheet files (copied directly into projectdirectory). Otherwise a later “project–>Archive” will exclude your custom dws-files.
• SaveAs → new project (so this experiment doesn’t destroys your complete work of the last 11month)
• open schematic+board (of the new project)
• in board: make sure both files are in sync (update board from schematic, with “use reference designator” unset)
• save
• board–>File–>Export–>all footprints in New Library, choose type “project-library”,
• select library-path directly in project-directory, type name (“all_footprints_lib”)
• confirm: “Update all footprints on board with new library” → yes
• save <— KiCAD crashes here

I’m able to manually reassign footprints to the newly exported library one-by-one, but I’ve got hundreds of them on this board. Hoping this is a known issue with a workaround.