Kicad5 using old footprints?

[Chris_Morgan]

Upgraded to kicad5 and I’m working with a design created in kicad4. MacOSX here. I noticed this issue when trying to figure out why all of the 3D models were missing.

During the initial upgrade I let kicad replace the footprints or other files with the defaults, as was suggested, but after a bit of debugging it looks like kicad is using the old GitHub libraries:

What is the correct fix for this? I have the new parts locally along with the 3D files. Should I be manually adjusting these paths to point at the local libraries? Should I adjust KIGITHUB to point at the new repository, https://github.com/KiCad/kicad-footprints?

[Rene_Poschl]

I had KiCad 4 installed previosly. Now i updated to v5. Now i have some problems with the library setup

Recommended reading: https://forum.kicad.info/t/library-management-in-kicad-version-5/14636 KiCad does not automatically discover libs. Nor does it update the list of libraries on update. If you had KiCad 4.0.x installed previously then i would bet you still have parts of its configuration surviving. Most importantly the fp-lib-table. This file controls which footprint libs you use. If this is the case then you probably still run the on demand online footprint libs originally “distributed” wit…

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[Chris_Morgan]

You know I had seen this post you made a month or so ago when looking at upgrading from kicad4 to kicad5 but thought it didn’t apply as I wasn’t going to run them in parallel and I figured the kicad5 installer would have taken care of this.

Thank you for responding, let me try option 1 and see how it goes.

[Chris_Morgan]

@Rene_Poschl btw, where did all of the GitHub files end up? Do those files have to be removed as well?

[Rene_Poschl]

The github plugin only stored stuff in some temporary location (probably directly in ram) That is why it was such a bad idea to use it. (Everytime you restart kicad it needed to download the libs again. At least the ones you need in that session.)

[Chris_Morgan]

Went with option 2 I think, delete the file and let it regenerate. I’ve been adding my libraries to project specific libraries, not touching the default libraries so that went smooth. Had to re-associate all of the footprints but that went quick. Thanks for your help!