KiCad crashes without notification in schematic editor when dragging elements using hotkey g

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I am currently on

Application: KiCad x64 on x64

Version: 8.0.7, release build

Libraries:
wxWidgets 3.2.6
FreeType 2.13.3
HarfBuzz 10.0.1
FontConfig 2.15.0
libcurl/8.10.1-DEV Schannel zlib/1.3.1

Platform: Windows 10 (build 19045), 64-bit edition, 64 bit, Little endian, wxMSW

Build Info:
Date: Dec 3 2024 15:58:01
wxWidgets: 3.2.6 (wchar_t,wx containers)
Boost: 1.86.0
OCC: 7.8.1
Curl: 8.10.1-DEV
ngspice: 43
Compiler: Visual C++ 1939 without C++ ABI

Build settings:

, although I saw this bevaviour in all versions since I am using KiCad (V7).
If I want to tidy up schematics by selecting on or more elements with wires connected and “dragging them” around to e.g. shorten or stretch a connection or to reposition symbols while keeping the wires attached, KiCad regularly crashes without any notice. This happens not too often, but still regularly and on different machines.

Can I run KiCad in some kind of “debug” mode so that log files are written that might show up the cause?

Thanks and BR,
Franz

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In preferences -> data collection enable crash reporting, then trigger the crash.
That is enough to get crash info to be sent to devs. If you open an issue on gitlab, include your unique id and describe what you were doing, and/or provide design files that trigger the crash, that will increase the chances of fast fix significantly.

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I can confirm - the same kind of crashes happened to me may be 3 times during last 2 years. The problem is with “trigger the crash”. I was trying to repeat what I was doing and couldn’t get it when trying to get it.
Last time (may be 8.0.4) I had selected big part of schematic and when dragging it I have tried also to zoom-out and then zoom-in using mouse wheel. It looked that this triggered the crush.
After rebooting PC I did it once more (selection could be little different) and it worked.

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