3dlollo Posted March 4, 2022 Share Posted March 4, 2022 (edited) This is a weird one; I didn't use LB much recently, so few weeks ago I ran it to get the latest update, and it did update to 12.6. The app started as usual, everything was fine, I quit the app and move on. Today I launched it and I get an error message about my settings.xml having issue, and the message invite me to restore a backup. I opened the file and there is nothing except a string of NUL in it. Goes without saying that I didn't make any backup since I never had such issues. Is this something that was reported by anyone? I have no repro steps except the ones I just described. The backup for the shutdown was also corrupted, although the startup one before was not. Which makes me think that something went south after the 12.6 update. Please let me know if there is anything saved/logged that I can look at.Thanks Edited March 4, 2022 by 3dlollo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neil9000 Posted March 4, 2022 Share Posted March 4, 2022 This usually happens when you kill Launchbox while it is writing to files, which it does when you close it. You should have backup zips in your Launchbox/Backups folder, i believe this is on by default, so unless you specifically turned that feature off (which would of been unwise) you should have backups. just unzip the newest one and look at the settings.xml, if it looks OK copy it to Launchbox/Data and overwrite, if that also looks bad try the next older one, and so on. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
3dlollo Posted March 4, 2022 Author Share Posted March 4, 2022 6 hours ago, neil9000 said: This usually happens when you kill Launchbox while it is writing to files, which it does when you close it. You should have backup zips in your Launchbox/Backups folder, i believe this is on by default, so unless you specifically turned that feature off (which would of been unwise) you should have backups. just unzip the newest one and look at the settings.xml, if it looks OK copy it to Launchbox/Data and overwrite, if that also looks bad try the next older one, and so on. I thought so, although I shut it down as I always do. I found that not only the config file was corrupted but all the xml files in the data folder. The good thing is that the backup before the last one was still recent enough and not corrupted (the backup was corrupted too), so I managed to restore its state. First time I get this behavior, and I've been using LB for quite a while now; so I connected the last update to this issue, although since it happened only once it is not statistically relevant, unless other people got that too. Updating to 12.8 today; will keep an eye to see if this happens again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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