Removing hat! Many, many thanks. I ran rxp - it found an illegal character. I deleted it. All seems well. How thin the line is between triumph and disaster!
Thanks for such timely and accurate help. IH On Wednesday, 16 June 2021 at 00:41:54 UTC+1 [email protected] wrote: > I'd run an XML parser on it to see if some kind of corruption has rendered > the file not well-formed XML. I like to use rxp : > > RXP <http://www.cogsci.ed.ac.uk/~richard/rxp.html> > > IIRC, you need to give it a file: url: file:///c:/path/to/file. > > You run it on the file and it will echo it to the screen unless there is > an XML error of some kind. It may be best to redirect the output to nul. > Here is a typical session using an XML file where I introduced an error: > > C:\Users\tom>rxp file:///c:\temp\bad.xml >nul > Warning: illegal backslashes in URL path "/c:\temp\bad.xml"replaced by > slashes > Warning: illegal backslashes in URL path "/c:\temp\bad.xml"replaced by > slashes > Error: Mismatched end tag: expected </sdsc>, got </entry> > in unnamed entity at line 14 char 10 of file:///c:\temp\bad.xml > > If there is an XML error, you will probably be able to fix it by hand, and > hopefully not lose much if any data. You do have a backup, right? :-) > On Tuesday, June 15, 2021 at 6:26:10 PM UTC-4 Israel Hands wrote: > >> I spoke too soon - now I have an error message - >> >> bad .leo file: G-Sync-Tech-Contacts-20-04-21.leo >> >> I can open it in Notepad++ - the header looks like this - >> >> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> >> <!-- Created by Leo: http://leoeditor.com/leo_toc.html --> >> <leo_file xmlns:leo=" >> http://leoeditor.com/namespaces/leo-python-editor/1.1"; > >> <leo_header file_format="2"/> >> <globals/> >> <preferences/> >> <find_panel_settings/> >> <vnodes> >> >> >> On Tuesday, 15 June 2021 at 22:54:16 UTC+1 Israel Hands wrote: >> >>> Sorry system details >>> >>> Leo 6.3, master branch, build e46e9315f6 >>> 2020-11-10 00:33:16 -0600 >>> Python 3.7.3, PyQt version 5.12.3 >>> Windows 10 AMD64 (build 10.0.19041) SP0 >>> >>> >>> >>> On Tuesday, 15 June 2021 at 22:52:08 UTC+1 Israel Hands wrote: >>> >>>> I have a file I use to jot down passwords and useful info and every >>>> now and then I save a copy with a new date. As you can understand It is a >>>> file I'm very attached to and it is always open. >>>> >>>> This bit may or may not be relevant! >>>> Today I fancied changing the basic font size - my eyes are getting old >>>> fast so I went to Edit Settings in the Settings menu and changed the >>>> @string font-size = 14pt to @string font-size = 16pt >>>> >>>> At some point later I wanted to check an entry in my master password >>>> file and noticed it wasn't open - strange. I selected it from recent files >>>> >>>> But lo nothing happens >>>> >>>> I get an entry in the log file >>>> >>>> Reading settings in D:/Sync_Disk/xxxxxxxxx.leo with the right path and >>>> file name but no file opens. >>>> >>>> If I use Open-Outline from the File menu - it also fails. But no error >>>> messages of any kind. >>>> >>>> Should shoot myself now or just start drinking heavily? >>>> >>>> ta >>>> >>>> IH >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "leo-editor" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/leo-editor/186435ff-7007-4b71-a090-e0b36b7f8bf0n%40googlegroups.com.
