been running Kicad6 on an almost daily basis all year
and I’m curious about a small problem that has just krept up for me
normally I’ll open a Kicad folder, double-click on the main -pro executable file and things load, etc …
all good
as a design iterates I’ll manually copy Kicad project folders inside a bigger project master folder
today I went back to a folder with edits from only a few months ago
I have no problem opening/running Kicad projects in other directroies
but when I hit the main project executable in any of the project folders inside this one master folder a prompt asks me if I want to run it or display its contents
this is new …
if I hit “disiplay” the pro executable comes up as usual … seems ok otherwise (not sure yet)
but I’d like to know why this is suddenly happening and whether I should worry about it
anybody got any ideas ?
btw, I’m running Kicad on Mint 20.3 … I checked the folder permissions, everything checks out there
What are the file permissions on the .kicad_pro file? Are they executable? Maybe the filesystem browser thinks it might be an executable shell file. In any case this seems like a Mint quirk, not a KiCad software issue.
Maybe it’s related to file or folder names. This should not be an issue, but I generally avoid “unusual” file names out of habit and a higher likely hood of bugs.
And maybe you just got dizzy and hunting ghotsts. What happens if you copy that “damaged” project to another directory and then open it?
What happens if you first open KiCad, and then open a project in that directory?
I checked folder permissions already, etc … everything looks right
so, I created a new blank project on my desktop and imported the schematic from my last save
everything works as before, even after moving/copying into my master project folder
except for sub-folders that wouldn’t run as before …
anyway, if I find anything more I’ll chime in again
thx