I can’t open normally project from version 8.xx in Kicad 9.0:
error 2 and 5.
It is first time i got this.
Windows 11, Kicad 8.0.7 work normally, 9.0 not.
Yes, I can open in v.8.
and I can’t found any lck file to delete.
I think this compilation is garbage. I don’t time to install and uninstall next version.
It’s a pity, everyone writes that it has so many better things but I have no way to check it.
The screenshot shows a bunch of errors creating paths that should be possible to create. This points to something strange about your Windows setup, probably.
Is it possible you used “Run as Administrator” on KiCad in the past?
I mean, do you have v8 open/running with the same project while trying to open with v9-rc?
could there be a kicad process still running ? check task manager or do a reboot
This is not an issue of another KiCad process locking the design – that warning can be skipped. Something is wrong with the KiCad path inside the OP’s Documents folder. The most likely thing is that the permissions are wrong, which could have been caused by launching KiCad 8 as an administrator and then trying to run KiCad 9 as a regular user. But there could be some other issue going on, I’m not sure.
In general, KiCad is working fine, it just doesn’t have permissions to create paths inside Documents\KiCad, which it should definitely have in a normal installation.
look for padstack colour in V9 and V8 - do you think the lack of visual distinction between paths and padstack is ok?
For many years it was like in v8, i.e. time for a revolution - let the board image be more illegible, new users will be delighted, old ones will be forced to the new - without giving them a choice - is this the power of open source?
Its not how you install but how you run. As @craftyjon mentioned, something is stopping you writing to your directory and a common reason is the process doesn’t have access (ie another user owns that c:\user\tbarw\Documents\KiCad directory…) and this usually occurs if admin is used to run the application and makes that directory.
You can check who owns that directory via the properties option in windows explorer (under permissions). Likewise make a test file in c:\user\tbarw\Documents\KiCad (readme.txt for instance) and if you can write there then its not a permissions issue.
Now if your user does OWN it and you can write there its either a disk full issue or time for a fsck
I don’t know what happens, but I can’t use normalkly kicad v9. Only v8 work well.
Mayby final version v9 will be usable for me.
Permission folders is fine, check disk ok, disk is not full - just v9 has problem with error 2 and error 5.
I don’t time for this.
Tomasz, most people in Poland right now are happily celebrating the New Year and you’re busy complaining about KiCad. Can’t it wait until, say, 2nd of January? For now, grab a bottle of something and celebrate with friends!
