KiCAD has lost my part symbols

[Fulko Hew]

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

[Jeffrey Walton]

On Mon, Apr 29, 2024 at 10:14 AM Fulko Hew <fulko.hew(a)gmail.com&gt; 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

[Fedora] KiCAD has lost my part symbols

[Walter Cazzola]

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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[Samuel Sieb]

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.