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Hi,
I have been a user for about a year here: I have successfully done quite a few schematics/PCBs with KiCAD r7.0.5, and love it!? However I failed to learn how to properly organize my libraries upfront and now I get error messages frequently when searching for parts.
With that being said and taking full blame for my predicament:? If I uninstall and do a reinstall with r7.0.9 will it prompt me for library construction so I can start anew with proper organization, or will it find settings in my registry and recreate or just pile-on the mess?

Thanks for your pity and assistance.
Howie
 

Fully sympathetic, library organization is something to learn-by-doing!

You might want to just create new Schematic and Footprint libraries to
hold your stuff, and then copy/move parts into these new libraries from
wherever they currently are. Then just use your new libraries in future.

I basically have a 'Personal Schematic Part Library' and a 'Personal
Footprint Library' and those are where I keep all 'my' parts.

Chris
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On 12/11/2023 9:09 AM, Howard Hoyt wrote:
Hi,
I have been a user for about a year here: I have successfully done quite
a few schematics/PCBs with KiCAD r7.0.5, and love it!? However I failed
to learn how to properly organize my libraries upfront and now I get
error messages frequently when searching for parts.
With that being said and taking full blame for my predicament:? If I
uninstall and do a reinstall with r7.0.9 will it prompt me for library
construction so I can start anew with proper organization, or will it
find settings in my registry and recreate or just pile-on the mess?

Thanks for your pity and assistance.
Howie

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