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All day through I was finishing my animation. Everything was completed, yet, it failed to render!!! I closed the program (Version 5.6) and tried to reopen .anme but no such luck!!!...

Only such a thing appeared:


I opened .anme in the text editor jEdit trying to change something, but all in vain…

I have read some posts about similar errors and understood I should not have worked in Version 5.6 because it is still being tested. I should have saved the file under different names every ten minutes.

Has anyone here come across this problem and solved it?

If you care to share the file someone may be able to open it for you. I had trouble with 5.6 files opening up in 5.5 but managed to fix the problem with help from the forum members and a text editor.

Cheers
D.K

Here is my file... Someone help me to fix it...
http://impeyatoi.narod.ru/my_animation.anme

Well, I know what your problem is (although I'm not sure how easy it is to fix it).

Everywhere you should have decimal places (like 2.5) you have commas -- I'm no international expert, but I seem to remember some countries do indeed express decimals with commas instead of periods. So perhaps this is an international setting or some such.

It can be fixed by changing all the commas to periods -- there don't appear to be any commas in a "normal" ANIME file. I'm using notepad to test this out but it's a very very long process so I thought I'd post here just in case you wanted to try yourself.

AFAIK there is nothing wrong with using 5.6 -- it's all I ever use now. However, in your case there must be something in your settings that are causing the comma issue.

Yeah, that worked.

I switched from Notepad to Word (because Notepad is just waaaay too slow to do the search and replace) but once I replaced all the commas with periods I was able to open up the file just fine.

Now, the bigger question is how you got those commas in there in the first place. I'm guessing that perhaps there is a version of AS for Europe, because there are no settings anywhere in my version that change the decimal display.

In any case, no work lost.

How in the freaking world did all the "." get changed to ","? That is the more important question. How or why would AS change periods to commas? Freaky weird.

Are you absolutely certain you didn't open this file in a text editor BEFORE getting the update? Did you accidentally make some global search and replace? Many applications like MS Word and others like it, will do auto-correction. Maybe it auto-corrected all the periods to commas?

I just don't see how AS itself would do this. Very strange. Maybe it is some kind of OS setting. I can't even imagine a "crash" or failure of the system that would cause this.

As far as I know there is only the French version of AS that is different from what most of us use. We all download from the same link. I don't think Mike is doing a "European" version of AS. Whatever happened is strange... very strange.

-vern

Hooray!!! Thank you all!!!
With your help it worked!!!

I don't know why "." changed to ","... I didn't use any text editors before and my system was fine... I don't know why it happened...

I did a search on google and the only thing I could find is what was already mentioned, some localizations in European countries will display a comma or use a comma as a delimiter for numbers instead of a period.

The part that is weird is... you would think it wouldn't actually change a file written by an application that doesn't do this. I wonder if it is the fact that ".anme" files are plain text? Could windows be changing the file?

It might have just been a corrupted file save. Maybe the system rewrote the file when the save "failed" or something.

The only reason I'm interested is... it just seems so odd. It would be nice to solve the mystery. I love a good mystery.

Just out of curiosity, what keyboard layout do you use? Is it not a US layout? I got google references for weird things regarding this using European keyboard layouts but mostly it was the display. For instance typing a period would display as a comma... seems like a stretch though.

-vern

i am having the same F ing problem can some one please tell step by step where to change this piece of comma thing PLease

I've never had this problem, but wouldn't a straight "search and replace" work?

oooooooooooh, that's gotta suck.

In your OS you can probably change your language or location to something the USA, but that's probably screw some other things up too.

Duplicate the file.

open the .anme (or .moho) file in a word processor.

Look for a tool like "search and replace" (find and replace-something like that)

In the "find" field, type in your comma.

In the "replace with" field, type in a period.

Click "replace all"

save the file, maintaining its extension.

Now, if you tell us what sort of word processor you have, it would be a little easier to be specific. If you don't have a word processor, what platform are you on (Linux, Windows, Mac?)