I have multiple versions of this board. When I open one a few versions previous, it works fine. But the later versions do not. The boards were made in 4.something on Debian. Now I have Kicad 5.1.9+dfsg1-1~bpo10+1. When I try to open a later board, nothing remaps. Everything is a question mark. When I go to preferences->Manage Symbol Libraries, it looks OK. I mean, the libraries are there and I think they’re in the right place. At the bottom ${KICAD_SYMOL_DIR} points to /usr/share/kicad/library. Any idea how to find what’s messed up in these projects that all I get is question marks?
I am very sorry for allowing a typo to get in my post. I’m just frazzled due to the hour and I need to be able to look at this. In the library it is actually ${KICAD_SYMBOL_DIR}, so that’s OK.
This is an older project than I had remembered. I think I began it in 2014 and worked on it through various versions till 2017 when I took a 4 year hiatus. Now, 5 years later I need to look at it. I discovered that none of the symbols had a library reference. So I’m going through each component and putting the proper library reference on it. I think this will fix it.
Everything worked out OK. I put all the library reference on the components and it saved! As to the version: I don’t always upgrade Debian from one release to the next, unless there’s something I need. So, I’ll be using this version of KiCad for awhile yet.