[Outdated] Warning for nightly users, regarding legacy project import

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Warning: commits https://gitlab.com/kicad/code/kicad/-/commit/b109136c5c39fbe1f468ba844456505b74e47f2c or https://gitlab.com/kicad/code/kicad/-/commit/f7823239609bed6d0a315f394f202e61775e68d0 introduced a bug, impacting opening legacy kicad *.pro / *.sch files: Only Value fields of the symbols are imported, all other fields (footprint and others are not imported) are discarded. This is easy to miss for small projects, so thought it will be useful to announce this.

Last working nightly is kicad-nightly-r29393.7059ef9b89-x86_64-lite.exe. Avoid newer nightlies when opening legacy projects!

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Have you created a gitlab issue?

I assume it was this change: https://gitlab.com/kicad/code/kicad/-/commit/f7823239609bed6d0a315f394f202e61775e68d0#note_1139543293

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Yes, confidental one. Wayne is aware about this and will probably fix it in near future (the issue occurred while trying to fix several other issues related to legacy import recently).

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Oh, I see - the wheels are turning already in gitlab! :grinning:
Thank you @Jonathan_Haas and @stambaughw :+1:

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Nope, Revert commented out code. (2a13c0af) · Commits · KiCad / KiCad Source Code / kicad · GitLab did not solve the problem. Nightly kicad-nightly-r29393.7059ef9b89-x86_64-lite.exe is still last good known version to open legacy projects.

I will mark this thread as outdated when see that problem is gone.

Tested with nightly

Application: KiCad Schematic Editor (64-bit)

Version: (6.99.0-3992-gc4fc9c1b16), release build

Libraries:
	wxWidgets 3.2.1
	FreeType 2.11.1
	HarfBuzz 4.2.0
	FontConfig 2.14.0
	libcurl/7.83.1-DEV Schannel zlib/1.2.12

Platform: Windows 10 (build 19044), 64-bit edition, 64 bit, Little endian, wxMSW

Build Info:
	Date: Oct 19 2022 07:43:18
	wxWidgets: 3.2.1 (wchar_t,wx containers)
	Boost: 1.79.0
	OCC: 7.6.0
	Curl: 7.83.1-DEV
	ngspice: 37
	Compiler: Visual C++ 1929 without C++ ABI

Build settings:
	KICAD_SPICE=ON
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Oh, I also assumed that was the problem. In any case thanks for the warning and report.

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Confirmed - no more problems in latest nightly, thank you Wayne :slight_smile:

Application: KiCad Schematic Editor (64-bit)

Version: (6.99.0-4004-gd01dcc1c51), release build

Libraries:
	wxWidgets 3.2.1
	FreeType 2.11.1
	HarfBuzz 4.2.0
	FontConfig 2.14.0
	libcurl/7.83.1-DEV Schannel zlib/1.2.12

Platform: Windows 10 (build 19044), 64-bit edition, 64 bit, Little endian, wxMSW

Build Info:
	Date: Oct 20 2022 07:40:02
	wxWidgets: 3.2.1 (wchar_t,wx containers)
	Boost: 1.79.0
	OCC: 7.6.0
	Curl: 7.83.1-DEV
	ngspice: 37
	Compiler: Visual C++ 1929 without C++ ABI

Build settings:
	KICAD_SPICE=ON
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