Sean Meighan
Welcome => Do You Need Help? Post it here => Topic started by: rted on December 15, 2018, 09:07:19 AM
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I have exhausted all options. Tried for hours, can't restore my rgbeffects.xml file containing all my 58 models info. When I try to load the rgb files I get " An unhandled exception occured. Press "Abort" to termine the program.
This occured after I downloaded the lasted verion .55.
I prefer to catch fish myself not served on a plate but I could use some professional help right now. Thanks!
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How exactly are you “loading” this file? I thought it just needed to be placed in your show folder?
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My show folder is correct but when I select the rgbeffects file it throws me the message: An unhandled exceptions occurred. Press " Abort" to terminate the program"Retry" to exit the program normally and "Ignore" to try and continue. Selecting any one of those options either shuts xlights or nothing loads.
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Other helpful info......last night I loaded another xlights sequence on my laptop with a different show directory and left it open. This morning when I went to the main desktop running version I loaded the newest xlights when completed the latest version xlights loaded last nights laptop xlight sequence. Since then I've been all down hill.
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I’ve never had to select the rgbeffects file. Where is the option that allows you to select this file?
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That's what mixing me up. Since updating xlight to latest version this morning when it restarted it opened my laptop version xlights files not my main xlights layout files. I haven't been able to find/restore the main rgbeffects file....soooooo confused because I've been opening all latest rgbeffects when it gives me that exception window.
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In additions when i try to open my latest rgbeffects file it gives me the "Sequence Element Mismatch" window telling me the models does not exist in my list of models.........
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Again, I don’t understand why you’re trying to open your rgbeffects file, and you haven’t explained what option (in xlights) you’re using to try to open this file.
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OK, will try to explain it again....sorry for the confusion. Before downloading the latest xlight version this morning I closed the xlights program on my desktop. I forgot I had another xlights version running on my laptop so when I opened the the new xlight program it loaded up the xlights from my laptop which had a different show directory and different models.
I have been trying to find my main models without success for several hours.....soooooo frustrating.
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You’re clicking Open: RGBEFFECTS?
How/why?
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You NEVER open the xlights_rgbeffects.xml file yourself that is there for xLights to open. If you want help you're going to need to get into our Zoom channel or post a video showing how you open xLights and where things go wrong.
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The way I'm searching is as follows:
Select Layout tab, then select the File-open sequence, in the search tab I enter rgbeffects and all xlight_rgbeffects files open. Here is where trying to find the rgbeffects file that corresponds to the date and time of my last working sequence.
However when I open the various rgbeffects files models do not load.
Hope this helps.
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As I’ve been saying from the beginning—you NOT should be opening the rgbeffects file
What instructions led you down this path?
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rgbeffects is NOT a sequence ... so never try to open it. You would only be opening *.xml files, which are the sequence files. The rgbeffects is automatically loaded, but you never select it to be opened.
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THANKS TO EVERYONE WHO REPLIED. :) :) I have learned the hard way that moving files directories around is a bad thing. Cheers and Merry Christmas to All.