coppermouse Posted July 20, 2018 Share Posted July 20, 2018 it appears that your launchbox\data\arcade.xml file is corrupt. Launchbox cannot contimue. Please try restoring a backup of the file from the backups folder inside your launchbox root flolder Root element is missing.. Please tell me how to fix this? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neil9000 Posted July 20, 2018 Share Posted July 20, 2018 16 minutes ago, coppermouse said: it appears that your launchbox\data\arcade.xml file is corrupt. Launchbox cannot contimue. Please try restoring a backup of the file from the backups folder inside your launchbox root flolder Root element is missing.. Please tell me how to fix this? Go to your Launchbox/Backups folder and find the Arcade.xml with the newest date on it, copy that out of the folder and rename it to just Arcade.xml by deleting the date on the end of the name, then just put it in Launchbox/Data folder and oversight the one there when asked. Of course do all this without opening Launchbox. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coppermouse Posted July 20, 2018 Author Share Posted July 20, 2018 Thank you very much 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coppermouse Posted July 22, 2018 Author Share Posted July 22, 2018 So I tried replacing arcade.xml with several of the backups and the message persists Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coppermouse Posted July 24, 2018 Author Share Posted July 24, 2018 Someone help please? Do I need to reinstall everything ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neil9000 Posted July 24, 2018 Share Posted July 24, 2018 upload your arcade.xml backups here and ill have a look. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coppermouse Posted July 24, 2018 Author Share Posted July 24, 2018 OK thanks, will do when I get home Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coppermouse Posted July 26, 2018 Author Share Posted July 26, 2018 Thanks! let me know what you figure out Arcade.xml Arcade_2018-07-12_15-28-31.xml Arcade_2018-07-15_18-27-26.xml Arcade_2018-07-15_18-31-18.xml Arcade_2018-07-15_18-34-24.xml Arcade_2018-07-15_18-34-41.xml Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DOS76 Posted July 26, 2018 Share Posted July 26, 2018 I had to remove a lot of corruption from it it had lines and lines of invalid characters and gibberish but it now works and says there is 2802 games I think that was the number. Arcade.xml 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neil9000 Posted July 26, 2018 Share Posted July 26, 2018 21 minutes ago, DOS76 said: I had to remove a lot of corruption from it it had lines and lines of invalid characters and gibberish but it now works and says there is 2802 games I think that was the number. Arcade.xml Nice one @DOS76, i hope it works for him. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DOS76 Posted July 26, 2018 Share Posted July 26, 2018 weird thing was the backup files were more messed up than the actual XML or at least the one I looked at was. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neil9000 Posted July 26, 2018 Share Posted July 26, 2018 lol, pass. You beat me to it as i was about to have a look, so saved me a job. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coppermouse Posted July 26, 2018 Author Share Posted July 26, 2018 Thank you so very much! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coppermouse Posted July 26, 2018 Author Share Posted July 26, 2018 Still gives the same message. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DOS76 Posted July 26, 2018 Share Posted July 26, 2018 What is the error you are getting I was getting ones that listed specific lines that were corrupted Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coppermouse Posted July 26, 2018 Author Share Posted July 26, 2018 Exact same as picture in original post Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neil9000 Posted July 26, 2018 Share Posted July 26, 2018 At this point its probably easier to just re-import your Arcade system, it will only take a minute or two as you dont need to download any media as you already have it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coppermouse Posted July 26, 2018 Author Share Posted July 26, 2018 Ok I will do that. I will have to figure that it, it has been several years. Thanks for the help. Do I need to delete arcade. Xml? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neil9000 Posted July 26, 2018 Share Posted July 26, 2018 26 minutes ago, coppermouse said: Ok I will do that. I will have to figure that it, it has been several years. Thanks for the help. Do I need to delete arcade. Xml? Yeah or just copy it somewhere else if you want to keep it for some reason. then just do a new import and uncheck all the media options as you have it all all ready it will all re-attach after the import. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coppermouse Posted July 27, 2018 Author Share Posted July 27, 2018 How to I get to the part to import the games? Launchbox program does not continue after this error message, it exits Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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