I have this python script to panelize so I’m running that and typically just use “open” command line on osx to open up the panel:
~/D/e/fabrication ❯❯❯ ./panelize.py
~/D/e/fabrication ❯❯❯ open ../kicad/panels/panel1.kicad_pcb
LSOpenURLsWithRole() failed with error -10810 for the file /Users/viktor/Dropbox/electronics/kicad/panels/panel1.kicad_pcb.
After a few secs I get this pop up ui error:
The stack details are:
There I can see something is wrong with my osx bindings, it’s using old 4 pcbnew that’s not active. I have both 4 and 5 nighlys installed via homebrew.
I installed both kicad 4 and kicad 5 nighly via homebrew cask and the 4 installation is still on disk, but should be inactive. Somehow however, OSX has tracked the move of the 4 binaries inside the Kicad folder and kept file associations to the old 4 binary.
AND I can’t seem to change it - if I go to file -> get info and the “open with…” to point out the pcbnew under kicad 5:
I get this error:
Anyone on OSX have had similar issues? I’m not sure if my problem will be solved by purging KiCad 4 but I’m going to try that next since I’m happy with going 5.