wont load rgb effects after update 2016.38

[jim]

what am i doing wrong everything worked fine in 2016.37 then i got update worked until then i saved. when i reload i get errors. "unable to load rgb effects file xml parsing error:'duplicate attribute' at line 4. first file is after update and second is before update.  Thx guys for your help

[Gilrock]

Somehow the "LayoutGroup" attribute is being created twice.  We are up to version 2016.44 so can you see if it upgrades correctly with the latest version?  You will need to start with the original file not the one not working.  If it still isn't working then there is a bug in the upgrade process I need to fix.  I won't be able to really look into this until later tonight.  You could always manually delete the extra copy of that attribute on each model line using Notepad++.  Leave the "Default" one for models you want to show up in your House Preview and leave the "Unassigned" one for models that were not part of your display.

[jim]

ok I tried 2016.44 and qet the same results Errors. ill try to do it manually but as of now I can only use version 2016.37.  Thank you for looking into this.  I love this program and have put alot of time into learning it.

[Gilrock]

Try this out.

[jim]

xml parsing error at line 193 now instead of 4

[jim]

Ok got it working I went through the rest of the models and removed the copys and works perfect.  Thanks a million

[Gilrock]

Yeah I missed those.  I deleted all the "Unassigned" ones but the groups had "Default" twice.   My guess is that you ran the file through the upgrade process twice.  If you opened up the file in 2016.38 and saved it, then opened it in 2016.37 and saved it, and then back in 2016.38 it would mess the file up like this because it would do the upgrade conversion twice.  I don't check whether the tags already exist because we stated once you go to 2016.38 there is no going backwards.