Yes - that doesn't make a lot of sense.? As soon as you click "New Library" in the symbol editor, you should get a dialog to save it, and that dialog should show the path.? I'll try to attach a screen shot of what you should see, but I don't know if groups.io allows attachments.? We'll see.

????Steve

On 3/29/23 04:04 PM, John Woodgate wrote:

Admin rights usually allow writing to app folders in Program files, but of course that's not guaranteed, and in any case is dangerous. But it's odd that I can create a library but not write to it!

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On 2023-03-29 20:52, Reinier Gerritsen wrote:

That is probably in a subfolder from c:\Program Files\KiCad where you have no rights to write.

Op 29-3-2023 om 21:29 schreef John Woodgate:

KiCad 6.0 on Windows 10. I didn't specify a path for saving, I just added the new Library to the Library folder.

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On 2023-03-29 20:09, Steven A. Falco wrote:

Which version of KiCad are you using?? Also, is this on Windows, Linux, or Mac?

I am using Linux, and by default KiCad saves to ~/.local/kicad/7.0, but I can specify a different path if I prefer.

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