Parts update on windows not working

Yes I think so. You need to either clone or download the zip from

in to C:\fritzing\fritzing.0.9.3b.64.pc\fritzing-parts and then in Fritzing click Part->regeneratate parts database to install it (note I haven’t yet actually tried this and you may want to keep a backup copy of the 2 user data files in

kill corrupt files:

There are two user directories (with your parts and the parts database) which don’t get touched during an install (to not affect your sketchs during upgrades). On Windows they are in

c:\users\username\AppData\Fritzing\roaming\Fritzing (which is a hidden directory so you need to enable hidden directories in explorer) and

c:\Users\username\My Documents\Fritzing (where username is your windows id)

If you don’t have any parts or sketches you want to keep you can just delete those two directories and Fritzing will receate them, or you can move them aside by renaming them if you wan to keep something in them.

Which contains the current database and your sketches (and doesn’t get cleared on a reinstall of Fritzing). Fritzing will happily use the backup copies if you replace them. I’m trying to get a development environment up but am having troubles with libgit2 (which is what does the automatic update) even before this latest problem. Being able to debug the libgit2 calls should tell me (maybe :slight_smile: ) what is wrong to get a fix going.

Peter