It’s been a while since I used KiCad to design and build an Arduino multifunction board for my grandson. I’m running 5.0.0 but today wanted to run up the PCB of the project and it wouldn’t load? Realise I am way behind in KiCad versions but is there any issues with maybe Windows updates that may have broken PCB in version 5.0.0?
I recall some time ago there were issues running existing project from version 5 to v6 and didn’t upgrade at the time. Wasn’t having any issues back then with v5 so didn’t upgrade.
Was wondering if upgrading to version 9 now would see v5 projects run ok and if there are anything that is required doing to transition from exiting v5 projects?
I doubt if anybody here is running 5.0 these days. The 5.0 series was replaced by 5.1 within 8 months, according to this timeline:
https://launchpad.net/kicad/5.0
In addition, the Windows versions that KiCad 5.x ran under are out of support.
KiCad can always read in files from as far back as a bit before KiCad V4 (Back then there was no KiCad V3, but “bazaar” hash? numbers were used.
The only problem is that in KiCad V5 and earlier, the KiCad projects relied on external libraries. It did make copies of those in the [project]-cache.lib and [project]-rescue.lib. These libraries should always be kept within the project. And when you open a KiCad V5 project in V9 it goes through the “rescue” process to convert your project to the latest current version.
Thanks…So v5 the cache.lib and rescue.lib files created these files in V5 as projects were being created? If so can I assume V9 will know where these files are or any library files I may have created in other directories?
V9’s “rescue” smart enough to work our where project library and associated files used for the project are located?