Having come to v6.0.10 from various previous versions over the past few years and having created many symbols and footprints in personal folders, I have a wild mixture of junk…
I’m planning to move to v7(after the dust settles) and I want to start my clean-up campaign - I have questions (‘yes’, I have read several posts but, given I’m heading toward v7, I want a Fresh approach and v5 to v6 info is not useful…) thus:
Given I want to stay with v6 until v7 is released but want to start cleaning-house and be Prepped for v7, can I;
Delete for example, barrel_jack.dcm and barrel_jack.lib ?). If so, how does barrel_jack become a .kicad_sym? (or am I on the wrong track…?)
.dcm ?
.lib ?
.kicad_sym ?
.bak
Or, perhaps a better question is “How to go about cleaning the old and prepping for the New?” Including Build/File Paths…
KiCad leaves the old files after conversion and that crud keeps on accumulating…
Did you find:
And when in doubt, you can open the files in a text editor and see what’s in it.
Another pitfall is that conversion may not be automatic, and KiCad can keep on using older library (formats). So be sure you have converted before you delete the old formats (Or better, keep some backup of them somewhere, just in case…)
But it’s … interesting, and the same here. I’m curious to other answers…
It turns out that cleaning wasn’t too bad - this is how I did it, by Example using a symbol with the name ‘Tofu’:
• If I had Tofu.lib and Tofu.dcm - I deleted Tofu.lib
• For the files that also had .dcm, I deleted All of the xxx.lib files in-bulk by using the system finder to group-list .lib
That left xxx.dcm and newer xxx.kicad_sym. If there were any (example) Tofu.dcm and Tofu.kicad_sym, I deleted the Tofu.dcm. Leaving only Tofu.kicad_sym
• Then, for the remaining xxx.dcm files, I selected the xxx.dcm and Exported it (that exported as xxx.kicad_sym )
• Then, after doing it for all of my symbols, I deleted the left-over xxx.dcm.
NOTE: It’s a bit ‘funky & smart’ in that the exported file contains the file-path/folder names so, I manually edited them.
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