Editing part reference or value moves them back to default location

[Bram Prosman]

When editing a parts reference or value and saving it moves the part reference/value to its default location on the sheet.

1. Place a part, e.g. a resistor (See attachment 1)
2. Edit the value/reference/size and drag them to the desired location (See attachment 2).
3. Change the value (in this example from 330E to 470E) See Attachment 3.
4. When saving the Reference/Value are thrown back to their original location (See attachment 4).

VApplication: Eeschema
Version: (5.99.0-123-gf1790c24e), release build
Libraries:
    wxWidgets 3.0.4
    libcurl/7.61.1 OpenSSL/1.1.1 (WinSSL) zlib/1.2.11 brotli/1.0.6 libidn2/2.0.5 libpsl/0.21.0 (+libidn2/2.1.1) nghttp2/1.34.0
Platform: Windows 8 (build 9200), 64-bit edition, 64 bit, Little endian, wxMSW
Build Info:
    wxWidgets: 3.0.4 (wchar_t,wx containers,compatible with 2.8)
    Boost: 1.68.0
    OpenCASCADE Community Edition: 6.9.1
    Curl: 7.61.1
    Compiler: GCC 8.2.0 with C++ ABI 1013

Build settings:
    KICAD_SCRIPTING=ON
    KICAD_SCRIPTING_MODULES=ON
    KICAD_SCRIPTING_PYTHON3=OFF
    KICAD_SCRIPTING_WXPYTHON=ON
    KICAD_SCRIPTING_WXPYTHON_PHOENIX=OFF
    KICAD_SCRIPTING_ACTION_MENU=ON
    BUILD_GITHUB_PLUGIN=ON
    KICAD_USE_OCE=ON
    KICAD_USE_OCC=OFF
    KICAD_SPICE=ON
ersion :

[Ian McInerney (imcinerney)]

Please provide the full version information from the About dialog (About - > Copy Version Information).

Also, edit in what way? Can you please provide the steps of the method you are using to recreate this bug.

[Wayne Stambaugh (stambaughw)]

This does not appear to affect the 5.1 branch.

[Jeff Young (jeyjey)]

Sadly the move command wasn't setting the autoplaced field correctly (which is stored in the file), so even after the fix it will still happen to fields that were moved previously.

[KiCad Janitor (kicad-janitor)]

Fixed in revision d9336e9f9767f933d4a20246fa91f84adacfeabf
https://git.launchpad.net/kicad/patch/?id=d9336e9f9767f933d4a20246fa91f84adacfeabf