In the past when I moved a part label I recall seeing a blue line connecting to the part so i could track the move. I don’t see the line anymore and in tight situations this is important for keeping parts with their label.
Looking at “view” and a few other places I don’t see how to re-establish the line.
Any ideas what I am doing wrong?
Thanks
Fritz
Works for me. I’m on 6.0.4. Did it work before on your version? Maybe you accidentally turned it off by a hotkey (if it exists for this) or something?
Which lines do not see, and where do you not see them?
I interpret “labels” as wire labels in the schematic, and those never had those lines.
Local labels always have their attachment point in one of the corners (depending on rotation & mirroring)
Those lines are for Values and RefDes in both the schematic and on the PCB (Mostly on the Silkscreen layers).
So now I’m curious, Is it those lines you do not see, or are you mixing up memories and expect to see such lines in the schematic?
I think by label (unfortunate choice of term) OP means either the Reference or the Value text attached to a symbol. When you select one and move it, a line to the centre of the symbol shows to indicate which symbol it is attached to. It disappears when the move is done.
I simply refuse to guess what OP may have meant.
I just point out the discrepancy and wait for an answer for more clarification.
Oh no, my life will be ruined if my hunch turns out to be wrong. Oh the shame. 
I am sorry for the late reply and poor description here. It was getting towards midnight here in the US and I shut down the lab before your responses. Here are better details:
Thus-for example-in the past if I placed my cursor on the “R5” and typed “m” this silkscreen reference would be movable but a little dark blue line would appear connecting the reference to the center of the actual resistor component. Sounds trivial but it is actually quite important to insure I don’t mix up references on a crowded board. My blue lines are gone–I figured this is an option somewhere but I could not find it.
I am on KiCad 6.01 with WIN10.
Thanks-and apologies again-
Fritz
The latest release is 6.0.4 so that may fix the problem. In any case you ought to update.
Cannot confirm on 6.0.4.
No need to apologize. The only effect is some delay in an answer for you.
I (of course) also suspected this is what you meant.
In the mean time I’ve been searching through the menu’s, and I did not find a way turn these on or off, but I did find a way to set their color with:
PCB Editor / Preferences / Preferences / PCB Editor / Colors / Anchors
Then I also saw the “Anchors” in the Appearance Manager
According to the tooltip (dis-)ables a cross at the text origin, but if you change the color (double click on the colored rectangle), then you can also set the color of the line. I set them here to bright green.
Also:
Whenever a footprint is selected, it’s associated text is also highlighted. This gives you at least a means to see which text belongs to which footprint if you can not see those lines.
Some other possibilities I have not investigated further:
Bingo.
I went into the preferences manager and changed colour to a bright blue and now I see the lines. I think the problem is that they are very thin and the original dark blue was not visible on my screen (I often work in my from a laptop sitting next to my cat). So this fixed the problem and I thank you.
I once quipped to a few colleagues that when the parts become smaller than the References it will be time to hang up my slide rule and call it quits. That was four-score-and-twenty “pensions” ago so I am still at it.
Thanks again
Fritz
Welcome to the Read the top line of letters on the screen please, What screen? club. 
I discovered recently that I was using a custom colour scheme in 6 probably because I migrated from 5. I switched back to the KiCad default scheme to have a known starting point if I don’t like some colours. Happy tweaking.
And therein lies the real problem.
Cats can be extremely devious when using keyboards to manipulate program functions whilst their slave is off making coffee. 
And the reason for that is the cat wants to be the laptop. 
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