I’m about to upgrade to KiCad 9 and I want to configure everything so that I can work seamlessly between my desktop computer (a PC) and my laptop (a Mac). I am the only user and will only be working on my projects on one computer at a time.
What’s the best way to configure for this? Should I do a clean installation and set all my directories to the gDrive folder? When using the software, how to best manage custom libraries?
This is how I work, I have all my custom libraries and 3d files on google drive and keep the standard libraries on the local computer.
Just load the libraries as you would any other, can take a bit longer on first symbol load as it caches the contents of the remote library but after that it is faster.
Brilliant, thanks. I don’t know why I didn’t consider just having projects and custom libraries on the cloud. I was thinking that all libraries needed to be on the cloud, but that’s just not the case.
That is basically what I do.
The other machine though is a headless Ubuntu, sharing the Google Drive using https://www.insynchq.com/.
I have a script on there which run a make file and checks various KiCad project directories every minute and when it finds a DSN file later than the SES file it runs a modified FreeRouter to route the board. This is so when I crash my PC I dont loose 4 days+ of routing time.
I’m thinking about seeing if a I can do similar with NoMachine and NordVPN mesh but that will not have the inherent backup of google drive system.
Fixed in the latest beta, or at least gone away.
