Appzapper being used3/21/2023 This is the only directory you need to remove to reset to ‘factory fresh’. When you reinstall KiCad, if there is a pre-existing ‘kicad’ folder in ~/Library/Preferences, you KEEP your original preferences. You will also notice that it is possible to keep a 5.1.x installation and a 5.99 installation separate with different preferences and you need to remove the 5.99 folder if you want to reset this as well. ![]() menu to check there are not any assets that you have relocated that you want to remove. You can place libraries wherever you like so you need to check the entries in the Kicad -> Preferences -> Configure paths. It is, of course, possible to set things up differently and use environmental variables to point to resources in different locations, symlink files to shared locations and multiple other tricks. If you simply remove (3) the next time you run KiCad, it will run the ‘first install’ wizard and regenerate default preferences. This is the standard ‘default’ installation. You need to remove the all the files in this directory to remove all the settings. For 5.99, the preferences are stored separately within a ‘5.99’ directory. The KiCad preferences in ~/Library/Preferences/kicad Most importantly, these include the fp-lib-table and the sym-lib-table as well as various preferences files. The “kicad” folder in /Library/Application Support which contains the assets (footprints/libraries/models/templates) etc. The KiCad folder in /Applications This contains the main applications. ![]() If you install KiCad ‘conventionally’ it gets installed to the following folders.
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