Editor hangs when loading schematic

Schematic
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I have been working on a project, and overnight Windows updates/reboots on its own. I supposedly have that disabled. Oh well. The project was saved.

But now I cannot open the schematic. When I attempt it, the editor hangs (stops responding). I have tried creating a new project and copying files, but that didn’t help. I have tried to start the editor through the icon in Kicad rather than double-clicking the schematic in the project.

I have been able to look at the file in Notepad++, and it looks OK. I make sure the file is closed before launching Kicad.

This is release 5.1.8 under Windows 10 Pro, 64GB,

I sure would like to be able to resume work on my project. Any ideas?

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I created a new project and the schematic editor will not open it without hanging.

EESchema Schematic File Version 2
EELAYER 25 0
EELAYER END
$EndSCHEMATC

That won’t open.

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I think you have a borked KiCAD install, and since you’re running 5.1.8, it’s probably time to just upgrade to 5.1.10 by doing a complete uninstall then an install of the newer version.

Good luck!

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Go to %APPDATA%\kicad in explorer, delete the files inside after making a backup. These are your settings for kicad but in 5.1 there have been corruption bugs where a bad value can crash kicad.

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That was it! Thanks. A “complete” uninstall was not so complete. So the setting corruption survived.
Thanks again.

Have there been issues with projects on network shares?

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Yes, numerous network share related bugs were fixed in 5.1.9. In particular, samba shares being buggy and our ui framework being overly strict on “Windows server correctness” would cause crashes :confused:

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