For a while now, my desktop system was getting flakey. Lots of blue screen crashes and finally a few reboots where the BIOS claimed to be unable to find the proper OS files (after resting for a while the reboot was successful). I backed everything up and uninstalled/deactivated any software that I thought used any disk info as a part of the license lock. I bought a new disk (larger than the old one that was filling up) and imaged the contents of the older disk onto the newer one. Once everything appeared to be stable, I re-formatted the old disk to be a non-bootable, data disk.
I then started reactivating by software licenses. This is when I found out that I did not deactivate my copy of Eagle. Reaching out to Autodesk proved to be useless as they had no record of the purchase and claimed that the serial number that I had was not legal. I am completely out of options to get a license key for my purchased copy of Eagle, so I am starting to look at using KiCad. I downloaded the latest version and had luck importing a project into KiCad. Now what I am looking for are any tutorials focused on prevision user of Eagle migrating to KiCad.
I started to try build a KiCad project from scratch (one of my existing project, but not imported). Almost immediately I ran into parts not in the KiCad library which open a large can of worms that I was not quite ready to deal with.
I don't know if this is a function of advancing age, but my ability to understand or learn new things seems to take a larger and larger effort. Thanks in advance to any help former Eagle user might be able to send my way.
