Can't install library in Kicad 7 for MacOS about kicad-libraries HOT 6 CLOSED

Hi @ariyyyaaannn,

Thank you for the detailed explanation. This information about Safari "Open safe..." preference will be included on the README file soon.

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Hello,
Are you using Safari to download the ZIP file?

PTAL #112

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Is there a suggested solution? #112 specifies a solution for Safari users.

I've download using both github.com -> download ZIP and using git clone https://github.com/espressif/kicad-libraries and re-zipping the file. Both methods result in Archive does not contain a valid metadata.json error message in Kicad 7.0.7. The same is true after I upgraded to Kicad 7.0.9.

EDIT: Potential Solution

After doing some digging, I've noticed several archives contain an extra folder. For example:

The metadata.json in kicad-libraries-main.zip (downloaded from github.com) gets extracted as ./kicad-libraries-main/kicad-libraries-main/metadata.json. Selecting all the files and adding them to an archive fixes the issue I was having.

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Have you tried this file from the assets, @jacobnrohan?

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Safari automatically unzips compressed files when downloaded. If you 'rezip' this folder, you get the following file structure:

>espressif-kicad-addon.zip
   >espressif-kicad-addon
      >3dmodels
      >footprints
      >metadata.json
      >....

As @jacobnrohan mentioned, You need the contents of the 'espressif-kicad-addon' to be at the root of the .zip file. Instead, select the contents of the downloaded folder and recompress them into a new .zip file. This is the desired structure:

>Archive.zip
   >3dmodels
   >footprints
   >metadata.json
   >....

You should be able to upload this new archive to the Kicad PCM with no issue.

You could also disable the extraction of zip files in safari preferences to avoid the issue in the first place.

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Closing this issue. Now we have a note on the readme.

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