Failed to Retrieve File Times - Access is Denied

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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.

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Hmmm… I removed it and re-added it and it worked this time.

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Have you actually checked the file permissions? Sometimes restarting Kicad will get rid of strange errors though this doesn’t sound like one of them. If these are the default libraries they could have transferred with strange permissions. I don’t know windows well but access denied is pretty plain.

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Another source for access violations on Windows are user accounts. But yeah, if it works now and is an odd one… who knows what went wrong. Bugs that are sporadic are a PITA to eradicate.