I hereby certify that I am not simply asking someone else to design a footprint for me.
DIdnt know which category to put this in but I downloaded the digikey kicad library from github, when I try to insert the footprints into Kicad and open my footprints file its empty but when i check the same file outside kicad its filled with footprints. I inserted the corresponding digikey symbols without any problem. Does anyone have a solution?
If they are .lib.mod files that’s a KiCad old format which has to be registered as a Legacy library.
What about an Armacy Library? That makes maybe a little more sense than American Betroleum Engineers. 
It might help if you let us know what version of KiCad you are using . . . can you paste your version info here please, you can get it from KiCad > Help > About KiCad > Copy Version Info
im using version 7.0.6
so where can i get the new digikey kicad files if i downloaded the old format
looks like i did download an old format from github, anyone know where i can find the latest one
Dunno, I haven’t had them installed for a while. But surely you can tell us where you got the current set from so that we can see what the problem might be?
I have the Digikey footprints, pretty sure I just added them from the Footprint Library manager
They are the current .kicad_mod format. All you should need to do is register the top directory digikey-footprints.pretty as a library in the footprint library manager as mentioned by RaptorUK. Not the individual footprints, each .kicad_mod file is one footprint.
However note the README.md warning that the repo is unmaintained. I don’t know what issues the author thinks there might be going to v6 (and v7).
downloaded v7 but still having the same problem, can see and add the symbols but not the footprints
Worked for me:
Cloned the repo with git clone
Went into Footprint Editor > Preferences > Manage Footprint Libraries
Clicked on + button to add a library
Entered Nickname and Library Path, the latter is a full path, find your download location with the browser
Got a new library called by the nickname, and I can expand it and I’ve shown the first footprint above
Explain the steps you did to do this please. What did you do to add the Footprints to KiCad ?
what version are you using
Same as you: KiCad 7.0.6
If you won’t answer a few simple questions it will be harder to help you . . . I’m also on 7.0.6 and have had the Digikey footprint library loaded.
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