Better handle corrupted Metadata.xml issues

[dava1234]

6.3 beta 18 windows 10 64 bit

System.Xml.XmlException: The ',' character, hexadecimal value 0x2C, cannot be included in a name. Line 6339, position 13. at System.Xml.XmlTextReaderImpl.Throw(Exception e) at System.Xml.XmlTextReaderImpl.ParseElement() at System.Xml.XmlTextReaderImpl.ParseElementContent() at System.Xml.XmlLoader.LoadNode(Boolean skipOverWhitespace) at System.Xml.XmlLoader.ReadCurrentNode(XmlDocument doc, XmlReader reader) at System.Xml.XmlDocument.ReadNode(XmlReader reader) at System.Data.DataSet.ReadXml(XmlReader reader, Boolean denyResolving) at System.Data.DataSet.ReadXml(String fileName) at () at LaunchBox.Search.LocalDb.get_DataSet() at () at LaunchBox.Search.LocalDb.GetEmulators() at (DataManager , Boolean ) at LaunchBox.Data.DataManager.Load(Boolean settingsOnly) at LaunchBox.Data.DataManager..ctor(Boolean bare, Boolean settingsOnly) at (String[] ) at LaunchBox.Program.Main(String[] args)

[Kirsten Marie]

Thank you so much, dava1234 , for letting us know! We will take a look at this as soon as we can!

[Jason Carr]

Hi dava1234, it looks like somehow the LaunchBox\Metadata\Metadata.xml file somehow got corrupted. Try deleting this file and see if LaunchBox will start again. I'll see if I can better handle this situation in the future. :)

[Jason Carr]

Added better error handling for this scenario.