Cant save footprint on footprint editor.

[Leandro Heck]

Maybe I am doing something wrong because I am starting to work in a project of a friend.
But I can't save footprints.

See the image attached, it adds filename 2x at the and of the path.

[Leandro Heck (leoheck)]

Add missing image and Kicad version.

Application: kicad
Version: 6.0.0-rc1-unknown-bbfce12~66~ubuntu18.04.1, release build
Libraries:
    wxWidgets 3.0.4
    libcurl/7.58.0 OpenSSL/1.1.0g zlib/1.2.11 libidn2/2.0.4 libpsl/0.19.1 (+libidn2/2.0.4) nghttp2/1.30.0 librtmp/2.3
Platform: Linux 4.15.0-30-generic x86_64, 64 bit, Little endian, wxGTK
Build Info:
    wxWidgets: 3.0.4 (wchar_t,wx containers,compatible with 2.8) GTK+ 2.24
    Boost: 1.65.1
    OpenCASCADE Community Edition: 6.9.1
    Curl: 7.58.0
    Compiler: GCC 7.3.0 with C++ ABI 1011

Build settings:
    USE_WX_GRAPHICS_CONTEXT=OFF
    USE_WX_OVERLAY=OFF
    KICAD_SCRIPTING=ON
    KICAD_SCRIPTING_MODULES=ON
    KICAD_SCRIPTING_WXPYTHON=OFF
    KICAD_SCRIPTING_ACTION_MENU=ON
    BUILD_GITHUB_PLUGIN=ON
    KICAD_USE_OCE=ON
    KICAD_USE_OCC=OFF
    KICAD_SPICE=ON

[Todor Todorov (ttodorov)]

I am seeing the same bug. The issue is that the editor prepends the footprint name as a subfolder under the library top folder, e.g. for a given footprint XYZ in library ABC it is trying to save to location ABC.pretty/XYZ.kicad_mod/ZYZ.kicad_mod.

This also affects editing of existing footprints. Once the footprint has been opened and edited, the work cannot be saved.

Uisng KiCad nightly 64bit on Windows 10.

Application: kicad
Version: (6.0.0-rc1-dev-271-g539ca5aa3), release build
Libraries:
    wxWidgets 3.0.3
    libcurl/7.54.1 OpenSSL/1.0.2l zlib/1.2.11 libssh2/1.8.0 nghttp2/1.23.1 librtmp/2.3
Platform: Windows 8 (build 9200), 64-bit edition, 64 bit, Little endian, wxMSW
Build Info:
    wxWidgets: 3.0.3 (wchar_t,wx containers,compatible with 2.8)
    Boost: 1.60.0
    OpenCASCADE Community Edition: 6.8.0
    Curl: 7.54.1
    Compiler: GCC 7.1.0 with C++ ABI 1011

Build settings:
    USE_WX_GRAPHICS_CONTEXT=OFF
    USE_WX_OVERLAY=OFF
    KICAD_SCRIPTING=ON
    KICAD_SCRIPTING_MODULES=ON
    KICAD_SCRIPTING_WXPYTHON=ON
    KICAD_SCRIPTING_ACTION_MENU=ON
    BUILD_GITHUB_PLUGIN=ON
    KICAD_USE_OCE=ON
    KICAD_USE_OCC=OFF
    KICAD_SPICE=ON

[Jeff Young (jeyjey)]

Fix on the way....

[Todor Todorov (ttodorov)]

In addition, it seems that when an existing footprint has been edited, the wizard actually removes the old file before saving the new one. That does not seem like a safe approach. As I am seeing now, my old footprint is gone too, along with the new version. KiCad should rename the old file as a backup, save the new work and only if successful, remove the backup file. If saving fails, the backup file should be restored.

As a workaround, I manually created a folder with the same name as the footprint, then went back to the footprint wizard and was able to save my work. Then I manually moved the file into the top library file and deleted the extra subfolder, once I closed the wizard.

[Jeff Young (jeyjey)]

Fix has been pushed. If you do your own builds, you can go ahead and pull it.