"This is obviously bad, since **the components lose their placement on the board**." Is that what happens in practice?

Sanity check: Are you working on files from before V6.3.39? See Update info for V6.3.39 in: [https://easyeda.com/page/update-record-v6.3](https://easyeda.com/page/update-record-v6.3)

@andyfierman Yes\, that is what happens\. You can see for yourself if you import changes on PCB\_2020\_08\_23\. And I am pretty sure I was on whatever the latest version is\, since I created the board 08/23\, and I faced the problem yesterday \(fixed it manually\) and thought it was a mishap\. When it happened this morning on a file saved yesterday\, I thought it was worth reporting as a bug\.

@martin, Thanks for the background info to your post: it should help the developers. :)

Major Issue just happened for me too. Please let us know when this will be fixed so we can decide whether to wait or fix manually.

@andyfierman @gednz6 @martin Hi If you still met this issue, please refer at [https://easyeda.com/forum/topic/How-to-solve-PCB-components-removed-and-added-after-Import-Changes-or-Update-PCB-9dbbeabbfdfa401986fa1d03b2316245](https://easyeda.com/forum/topic/How-to-solve-PCB-components-removed-and-added-after-Import-Changes-or-Update-PCB-9dbbeabbfdfa401986fa1d03b2316245)

@usersupport. Yeah, that doesn't work since the bug is happening in schematics created _in the very latest version._ There is no newgId to be found. This is NOT a problem of conversion from one version to another, as it happens within the same version of the software. Please see my response regarding this: > @andyfierman Yes\, that is what happens\. You can see for yourself if you import changes on PCB\_2020\_08\_23\. And I am pretty sure I was on whatever the latest version is\, since I created the board 08/23\, and I faced the problem yesterday \(fixed it manually\) and thought it was a mishap\. When it happened this morning on a file saved yesterday\, I thought it was worth reporting as a bug\.

@martin Hi This schematic confirmed doesn't have the newgid, we will investigate it, when remove the PCB newgid, Import Changes works. It must a bug.

Hi Support, Same problem here. But not only the components lost their placement, the whole board lost its origin and was moved to the left and up. Some components stayed put (in respect to the board outline), but everything has another location now. Thanks for a quick fix, Willem.

In my project the schematic does not have newgId, but the PCB does. The result is most of the components get removed and replaced.  And if I remove the newgId from the PCB (or set it to false), a different set of components gets removed and replaced:  Either way I'm stuck with having to manually reposition components :( :(

@usersupport still an issue. Can we roll back?

@mijnmodelbaan @gednz6 @iforce2d Hi If you still met this issue, please refer at [https://easyeda.com/forum/topic/How-to-solve-PCB-components-removed-and-added-after-Import-Changes-or-Update-PCB-9dbbeabbfdfa401986fa1d03b2316245](https://easyeda.com/forum/topic/How-to-solve-PCB-components-removed-and-added-after-Import-Changes-or-Update-PCB-9dbbeabbfdfa401986fa1d03b2316245)

@UserSupport, that is not what users want to hear. First, because you introduced a huge regression and don't seem to be in a hurry to fix it. It is unreasonable to expect users to muck around in internals for something that USED to work. When you break stuff, it should be a priority to fix it, especially something as fundamental as this. Secondly, because your fix doesn't work, as newgId is nowhere to be found. And third, this is not a problem of converting old versions to new. The problem occurs within schematics created in latest versions.

@martin We will release a new version to fix this, is testing now, it will release soon. we will provide a "reset component ID" feature to make sure the schematic and PCB components match. "The problem occurs within schematics created in latest versions." at present, all feedback are the old deisgn, I have checked your project, the schematic is designed at 2016, its very old design. If the schematic created in latest version, will not appear this issue, because they have the match component IDs. If you can repeat this issue at new created schematic, please let us know. Thank you

Hi @usersupport This does not work for me: [https://easyeda.com/forum/topic/How-to-solve-PCB-components-removed-and-added-after-Import-Changes-or-Update-PCB-9dbbeabbfdfa401986fa1d03b2316245](https://easyeda.com/forum/topic/How-to-solve-PCB-components-removed-and-added-after-Import-Changes-or-Update-PCB-9dbbeabbfdfa401986fa1d03b2316245) Same as martin said, newgId is nowhere to be found in my designs. I have a PCB that needs a minor update now and several large designs that need to be updated and ordered in the next two weeks so I am very concerned.

@usersupport: this project was cloned on 2020/08/23 from an older project, but the PCB layout was build from scratch. What I gather from this is that cloning does not properly update the format of an older schematic.

Hello @UserSupport, I have this issue too. I have a PCB originally designed in the online editor in May 2019, so it was before 6.3.39 for sure. I need to add fuses and change a couple of minor things. I tried setting newgId:false but it made no difference for me. Here is the project. Can you please take a look? [https://easyeda.com/liket73/pwm-controller](https://easyeda.com/liket73/pwm-controller)

@andyfierman @gednz6 @martin @mijnmodelbaan @gednz6 @iforce2d Hi All EasyEDA release v6.4.7, provide a feature via: Design - Reset Component ID, if you met this issue, please try reset component ID for schematic and PCB. the component ID will be reset by the prefix. If your schematic has subparts, after Import Changes you need to move the subpart back to origin position. Thanks

Hi @usersupport Thank you - that fixed it for me.

@usersupport, yeah, this seems to fix the problem, though ideally, cloning an older schematic would trigger this functionality behind the scenes. Nonetheless, good stuff for anyone that knows where to look...!

@usersupport Is this issue fixed? As I'm still having this problem with a project created with version 6.4.5 and now on version 6.4.7. Sometimes 2 components will be removed and added on the pcb, sometimes 4 components, while non of them changed in the schematics. I tried this solution with 'newgId' you mentioned above but that's not working for me as I'm getting an 'Invalid Format' error while applying the fix. I think the problem started again after updating to version 6.4.7, before it worked fine. Please help!

@usersupport:  did some more testing and the problem seems to be in the offline version. I went to the online version and did the import; the first time it was removing and adding 2 components, but after saving the file, closing the project, opening the project again, importing didn't find anything changed. As soon as I opened the project offline, the problem was back again.