SOLVED. Tryed moving the esp32 hardware folders around to no luck. Dumb.
Deleted them. Board manager esp32, installed 1.0.4 ok.
Ok, bear with me. In larger scope of trying to get ESP32CAM to work... never used FTDI or ESP32Cam. I heard esp boards v1.0.1 has broken face detect, I downgraded to .1.
Board esp32wrover (platform esp32, package esp32) is unknown
Board esp32wrover is unknown
Error compiling for board ESP32 Wrover Module.
update - no board from esp32 works! maybe bad boards.txt... trying v1.0.3... no go. Restart IDE. No go! Try .4... waiting... no, it won't find the same board I've been using, Node-32S...
My boards is bad or something... 