Giant grey dot in schematic view

[Jocman]

Hi all.
After several months, I went again to Kicad to check some old PCB before to etch them.
Honestly I don’t remember well, but allegedly before…to drop Kicad last time I updated the version (currently my version is 5.1.2 (Win 7/64)).
Well, as I open a project and load a schematic, I get a popup in order to remap the symbols, quoting a non compatibility with previous versions once remapped.
Ok, no matter, I do it.
When the schematic opens (with no changes, as I can remember), I notice a grey background and no frame with the schematic info anymore… Zooming out, I realized a giant grey dot sorrounding my schematic…
I tried to eliminate the grey through the settings menu (background, etc), but no way.

There is any reason for that giant grey dot and how to fix it?

Thanks

Andrea

[eelik]

No idea what it is. Can you attach the schematic file here?

[Jocman]

Sure.
Here you go.
Datalink.sch (37.8 KB)
For the sake of clarity, I use some custom symbols (It’s easier to me)

[der.ule]

I could not reproduce that, but I do not have your symbols either:

Application: Eeschema
Version: (5.1.6)-1, release build
Libraries:
    wxWidgets 3.0.4
    libcurl/7.66.0 OpenSSL/1.1.1d (Schannel) zlib/1.2.11 brotli/1.0.7 libidn2/2.2.0 libpsl/0.21.0 (+libidn2/2.1.1) nghttp2/1.39.2
Platform: Windows 8 (build 9200), 64-bit edition, 64 bit, Little endian, wxMSW
Build Info:
    wxWidgets: 3.0.4 (wchar_t,wx containers,compatible with 2.8)
    Boost: 1.71.0
    OpenCASCADE Community Edition: 6.9.1
    Curl: 7.66.0
    Compiler: GCC 9.2.0 with C++ ABI 1013

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

[pedro]

You should attach Datalink-cache.lib at least. Better with Datalink.pro.

[Jocman]

Incoming files…

Datalink.pro (837 Bytes) Datalink-cache.lib (6.2 KB)

[mendy]

Possibly you could have a corrupted page layout file or need to set location of the file.

[der.ule]

Still not able to reproduce it.

Do you know which frame are you using ?

EDIT:
I’m thinking exactly what @mendy commented while I was typing.

[mendy]

I am on 5.1.6 forgot to mention. der.ule looks same on my system with symbols and no wires.

[Jocman]

Uhmmmm…
Now I have to go working, but tomorrow I’ll have a look to your suggestions and let you know.

[pedro]

Same v5.1.6 here. There are no wires but local labels.
No sign of the grey artifact. There are 18 components and 18 components in cvpcb too.

[Jocman]

Mendy was right…
I made a new layout file and evrything was fixed.
Thank you very much

Andrea