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And by the way here's the file. The project name was Histoire de gars 004.

The file you uploaded has three illegal characters at the start of the file, before the <?xml. Some text editors will display these characters, others will ignore them. The characters will render differently (if at all) depending on the encoding the text editor is expecting. For me they render as Ôªø. Opening the file in a hex editor I can see that the character values are 0xEF 0xBB and 0xBF. Do you have an editor that can see and remove these characters?

-- Bill

billw58 wrote:Do you have an editor that can see and remove these characters?

-- Bill

Well first thanks for telling me what might be the problem. But I can't see those characters at all, and I don't know what could be a hex editor. Is there a way I can find one?

I looked at the AUP as downloaded and did not see these chars (either in HEX or as characters). I only see two chars before the <?xml -- they are 0xFF and 0xFE. I created a 1 second generated noise project and opened the AUP file in a hex editor and see the exact same leading (not visible in a text editor) chars in my file.

Edgar wrote:I looked at the AUP as downloaded and did not see these chars (either in HEX or as characters). I only see two chars before the <?xml -- they are 0xFF and 0xFE.

Ok, so then what should I do to be able to open the file again?

Remove those illegal characters in a Hex editor like HxD. I've attached your .aup file with the three characters removed.

But how did they get in there?


Gale

Gale Andrews wrote:Remove those illegal characters in a Hex editor like HxD. I've attached your .aup file with the three characters removed.

But how did they get in there?


Gale

First, let me tell you that the project works again, and I couldn't thank you enough.
Also, to be honest, I don't have a clue why those characters got in the text. Next time, I will use a proper way to edit it. I will try to download HxD when I'll have the time. Thanks!