This is the same file. I cannot select any footprint in the PCB Editor, but if I highlight a component in the schematic, it will show the Reference Designator and Value fields like this:
To me, it looks like the rendering is crashing but without any error message. I originally used v9.0.2, but I upgraded to v9.0.3 to see if that would solve the problem. It did not. Is this a known issue? Any hints on how to solve it is much appreciated! I’m on an Intel based Mac running OSX 13.1.
There was a bug which caused a situation like this when opening an older v8 file in v9. It has been fixed, but I think it can still affect the view if the project was already saved with an older than 9.0.3 (or older than .2 or .1?) version. As far as I can see, it just used and wrote wrong visibility values to the .kicad_prl file. Deleting that file is safe, it’s just the GUI state etc. which doesn’t affect the actual design.
as far as I understood the fix it is only so that it won’t happen again for future changes in the file-format, like a v10 upgrade. But the update from 8 to 9 will always be affected. I might be wrong though. I reported the bug before the v9.0.0 release and it was fixed quickly. But I still encounter it when opening older projects
