Updated AVR Boards are not used?

Using Arduino IDE 1.x
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Hi All.

I have Arduino 1.8.4 (which includes Arduino AVR Boards 1.6.20). I recently updated boards to 1.6.23. As a result:

  • Arduino AVR Boards 1.6.20 reside in [u]c:\Program Files (x86)\Arduino\hardware\arduino\avr[/u]
  • Arduino AVR Boards 1.6.23 reside in [u]%UserProfile%\AppData\Local\Arduino15\packages\arduino\hardware\avr\1.6.23[/u]

The problem is that apparently it's boards 1.6.20 that are in use. Any idea why?

I judge that by the fact that the following 1.6.20 files are used rather than their 1.6.23 counterparts:

  • boards.txt
  • platform.txt
  • platform.local.txt
  • libraries\EEPROM\src\EEPROM.h
  • ...
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Are you running the Arduino IDE in portable mode? That would be indicated by the existence of a c:\Program Files (x86)\Arduino\portable folder.

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Nope. Here's the contents of my C:\Program Files (x86)\Arduino:

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Update: I just tried this again, on a completely fresh system. The same issue. Is it that I don't understand something? Why is the old version used rather than the updated one?

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Please do this:

  • (In the Arduino IDE) click File > Preferences
  • Check the box next to "Show verbose output during: > compilation
  • Click "OK"
  • File > New
  • Sketch > Verify/Compile
  • After the compilation finishes, click on the black console window at the bottom of the Arduino IDE window.
  • Press Ctrl+A to select all the text.
  • Press Ctrl+C to copy the selected text to the clipboard.
  • In a forum reply here, click on the reply field.
  • Click the </> button on the forum toolbar. This will add the forum's code tags markup to your reply.
  • Press "Ctrl + V". This will paste the compilation output between the code tags.
  • Move the cursor outside of the code tags before you add any additional text to your reply.

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Hi, thanks, pert. I'm attaching the file.

empty project.txt (30.2 KB)

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That log shows it using the 1.6.23 version of the board package...