Error: Multiple footprints found for “U1”

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Hallo, I almost finished a board design when I decided to insert a new component… since I did not need new nets I simply duplicated a footprint changed ita references, assigned needed net to pins, placed it and routed. I did this kid of operation many times without troubles.
After that I get back on schematics ‘fixed’ the missing components, after (re)generating the netlist I tried loading it on pcbnew but I got the error in subject line.
U1 was the reference of the duplicated footprint then my non orthodox maneouvre is probably the source of the error but I cannot undestand how to fix it…
I checked every file (.sch, .net, .kicad_pcb) but I haven’t found a trace of duplicated U1 references.
How can fix it?

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Have you read Update PCB from Schematic's match methods

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And always tell what KiCad version you are using, Help->About->Copy Version Info -> paste here.

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The problem was the /path value in .kicad_pcb.

Changed it to a different value and now everything works.

Kicad pcbnew version:

Application: Pcbnew
Version: (5.1.9)-1, release build
Libraries:
wxWidgets 3.0.5
libcurl/7.71.0 OpenSSL/1.1.1g (Schannel) zlib/1.2.11 brotli/1.0.7 libidn2/2.3.0 libpsl/0.21.0 (+libidn2/2.3.0) libssh2/1.9.0 nghttp2/1.41.0
Platform: Windows 8 (build 9200), 64-bit edition, 64 bit, Little endian, wxMSW
Build Info:
wxWidgets: 3.0.5 (wchar_t,wx containers,compatible with 2.8)
Boost: 1.73.0
OpenCASCADE Community Edition: 6.9.1
Curl: 7.71.0
Compiler: GCC 10.2.0 with C++ ABI 1014

Build settings:
USE_WX_GRAPHICS_CONTEXT=OFF
USE_WX_OVERLAY=OFF
KICAD_SCRIPTING=ON
KICAD_SCRIPTING_MODULES=ON
KICAD_SCRIPTING_PYTHON3=OFF
KICAD_SCRIPTING_WXPYTHON=ON
KICAD_SCRIPTING_WXPYTHON_PHOENIX=OFF
KICAD_SCRIPTING_ACTION_MENU=ON
BUILD_GITHUB_PLUGIN=ON
KICAD_USE_OCE=ON
KICAD_USE_OCC=OFF
KICAD_SPICE=ON

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