How to migrate your K5 user libraries to K6

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@timg11 Thanks for posting this report. A couple of suggestions:

  1. Your “Preferences / Symbol Libraries” appears to be actually “Preferences / Manage Symbol Libraries”

  2. You suggest "Paste the full path into “Library Path”. I suggest instead creating some user-defined Kicad path “environment variables” (using Preferences / Configure Paths). I settled on:

  • KICAD_USER_SYMBOLS
  • KICAD_USER_FOOTPRINTS
  • KICAD_USER_3DMODELS

Then you can use these variables in the paths you place in the Symbol Libraries or Footprint Libraries tables. This looks tidier, and also allows you to change the location of your libraries very easily at a later time by just editing the “environment variable” in the Configure Paths list.