I recently needed to revisit a design I made 4 years ago, (back when I was still running F33/F34) I have since also recently upgraded to F39 (that has KiCAD V7)
And the first problem I see is that on my schematic all of the parts have no symbols on the schematic.
What happened to them, and how can I restore them?
TIA Fulko
On Mon, Apr 29, 2024 at 10:14 AM Fulko Hew fulko.hew@gmail.com wrote:
I recently needed to revisit a design I made 4 years ago, (back when I was still running F33/F34) I have since also recently upgraded to F39 (that has KiCAD V7)
And the first problem I see is that on my schematic all of the parts have no symbols on the schematic.
What happened to them, and how can I restore them?
I can't answer the first question. But for the second question, I would try to perform a reinstall to see if it helps.
sudo dnf reinstall kicad
To hazard a guess ... the problems you are seeing may be due to different formats between the F33/Kicad and F39/Kicad. Renaming the Kicad configuration directory may help. It should be in the root of your $HOME directory.
Jeff
On Mon, 29 Apr 2024, Fulko Hew wrote:
I recently needed to revisit a design I made 4 years ago, (back when I was still running F33/F34) I have since also recently upgraded to F39 (that has KiCAD V7)
And the first problem I see is that on my schematic all of the parts have no symbols on the schematic.
What happened to them, and how can I restore them?
I never used KiCAD but this could be a font issue. If KiCAD saves in ascii format open your old schema with a text editor as vim, looks for font names once you found them check if they are installed in your system.
If the KiCAD saves into a binary format you can try stripping the strings with strings and look into them for the font name.
I HTH Walter
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On 4/29/24 7:12 AM, Fulko Hew wrote:
I recently needed to revisit a design I made 4 years ago, (back when I was still running F33/F34) I have since also recently upgraded to F39 (that has KiCAD V7)
And the first problem I see is that on my schematic all of the parts have no symbols on the schematic.
What happened to them, and how can I restore them?
I recently opened some old projects in F39 and there was a some kind of message about a file format change and symbol recovery. I don't remember the details now, but I did the recovery and everything was fine after that.
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