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KiCAD: the -rescue.lib file is also precious! #3025

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@jnavila jnavila commented Apr 7, 2019 •
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Reasons for making this change:

the -rescue.lib file is also precious!

Links to documentation supporting these rule changes:

https://forum.kicad.info/t/lost-the-schematic-components/12026/11
https://forum.kicad.info/t/how-to-clone-a-project/3878/23
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@shiftkey shiftkey commented Apr 7, 2019

@jnavila any links to StackOverflow discussions or other documentation about this change?
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@jnavila jnavila commented Apr 7, 2019

Well, first of all my own prose 😆 : https://jnavila.github.io/plotkicadsch/ , but more seriously, there's an explanation for the life cycle of -cache.lib and -rescue.lib files here or here
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@bartlettD bartlettD commented Jun 1, 2019

This is the right move, the -rescue.lib file is needed for schematics drawn with the Eeschema tool in KiCAD to resolve symbols when those symbols dissapear or are modified from the Global or Project libraries.

Ideally, a user should never have a -rescue.lib because symbols will never dissapear or wont be changed, but sometimes a change to the library may break a design an so a "rescue" is a safer option.

The KiCAD docs explain this in a bit more detail.
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@shiftkey shiftkey commented Jun 1, 2019

@jnavila @bartlettD thanks!
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* upstream/master:
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  Ignore *.xyd outline files generated by xy LaTeX package (github#3088)
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  KiCAD: the -rescue.lib file is also precious! (github#3025)
  Revert "KiCad: add footprint cache (github#3043)" (github#3075)
  Add db.sqlite3-journal to Python.gitignore (github#3063)
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