Import an Altium database library into Kicad

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As a long time Altium Designer user, I’ve built up a large MS Access-based database library.
Switching to Kicad, is there any way to import this library, or do I have to start from scratch?

Thanks,
Andy

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Database libraries in general are supported, but MS Access in particular may have issues because it doesn’t have the same ODBC support as various other relational databases – see Microsoft non-SQL ODBC drivers not supported by database libraries (#15880) · Issues · KiCad / KiCad Source Code / kicad · GitLab

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[Sarcasm on]
Gosh, microsoft tools not being compatible with generic standards, where did I hear that before.
[/sarcasm off]

Even in the years that I still used a microsoft operating system, I stayed away from as much of the rest of their software as I could. I don’t know how easy it is to convert the whole database to a real standard format, but now may be a good moment to think about that for a bit.

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I’d forgotten about MS Access. Still kinda what I remember about it though.
A quick search found this. Seems to be a free version but … I have NO personal knowledge of this product or if it works.

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Exporting your MS Access database to almost anything else like even Sqlite first might work better.

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I’m very, very far from being any kind of DB knowledgeable person . . . but isn’t it simply a case of using the MS tool “ODBC Data Source Administrator” to configure ODBC access to your Access DB ?