Eeschema keeps loading wrong symbol

[Joan_Sparky]

You encountered one quirk of the soon-to-be-replaced™ component library framework.

Schematic symbols from GIT

PCBnew handles the libraries differently than EEschema, their format is also completely different. EEschema will converge to that same system with KiCAD v5 afaik (or not if the newest rumor is true ). With that being said, current state of affairs in KiCAD v4… PCBnew: libraries are .sweet .pretty folders footprints are .kicad_mod files .kicad_mod files contain all information for that footprint, even the link for the 3D model configuration is stored in fp-lib-table file in your KiCAD…

note the note there:

if you have symbols with the same name in different libraries, EEschema will always and only load the one that is in the library that comes first in the list of libraries

PS: yes, we’ve all been there & got the T-shirt to prove it