I decided to move my footprint library to a different location where it can be added to a subversion repo.
I opened the footprint editor, went to Preferences -> Footprint Libraries Manager
Removed my “old” library from Project Specific Libraries
Added my “new” library to Global Libraries, plugin type = kicad
I go to Load Footprint from Library
Choose my library
I then get:
8:13:02 PM: Failed to open ‘C:\Users\Foo\Documents\KiCADLibrary’ for reading (error 5: access is denied.)
8:13:02 PM: Failed to retrieve file times for ‘C:\Users\Foo\Documents\KiCADLibrary’ (error 5: access is denied.)
As you can see the library is inside my documents folder, so it is writable. It has a .svn hidden subfolder.
KiCAD 4.0.7. Windows 7.
Any ideas how I can fix this? Thanks.