System.Argument.Exception - Illegal characters in path

[Peter Cumminsky]

Illegal characters in path.

App: LaunchBox
Version: 9.9
Type: System.ArgumentException
Site: Void CheckInvalidPathChars(System.String, Boolean)
Source: mscorlib

at System.IO.Path.CheckInvalidPathChars(String path, Boolean checkAdditional)
at System.IO.Path.GetFileName(String path)
at System.IO.Path.GetFileNameWithoutExtension(String path)
at (Game )
at Unbroken.LaunchBox.LedBlinky.GameSelect(Game game)
at (<>c__DisplayClass55_0 , Object )
at Unbroken.LaunchBox.Desktop.ViewModels.ContentViewModelBase.<>c__DisplayClass55_0.<OnSelectionChanged>b__0(Object state)
at System.Threading.ExecutionContext.RunInternal(ExecutionContext executionContext, ContextCallback callback, Object state, Boolean preserveSyncCtx)
at System.Threading.ExecutionContext.Run(ExecutionContext executionContext, ContextCallback callback, Object state, Boolean preserveSyncCtx)
at System.Threading.QueueUserWorkItemCallback.System.Threading.IThreadPoolWorkItem.ExecuteWorkItem()
at System.Threading.ThreadPoolWorkQueue.Dispatch()

Recent Log:

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10:20:04 Music.Play Empty Music Path
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10:29:07 Music.Stop Start
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10:32:02 Exception

[Peter Cumminsky]

This happened just after updating the GameDB.

[Peter Cumminsky]

It’s consistent, adding Keystone Kapers to Atari 2600 just after downloading pictures - that must be the source of the illegal characters. Not sure how to remove the pictures - if I select it in the grid it throws the error and crashes.

[Peter Cumminsky]

No “Keystone” in images - might be a corrupted GamesDB update - how do I fix that?

[Peter Cumminsky]

OK, found the bad image in the online DB - “Advertisement Flyer - Front” for Keystone Kapers. It can’t find the image to download. Not cool that it crashes LauncBox. Removed the image from “Edit” form and now works OK.

[Peter Cumminsky]

The way I got it to work was to remove KK entirely from Atari 2600.xml, add a new game, renamed it to Keystone Kapers and downloaded the images which threw a lot of errors but no crash this time; saw that the first image, “Advertisement Flyer - Front” gave a no-image icon and removed that image in the Edit form. Hope this helps.

[Jason Carr]

This appears to be caused by having improper characters in game file paths. Not sure how that would happen, but I've fixed it for the next beta.