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[Lucian Greymark]

Okay so, with the change to windows 10 all of my excel csv files have lost their formatting. Mostly I can handle this, and have done so, but for some reason the description files are suddenly not working. I've fiddled with manual formatting aplenty but nothing's working. The one error I seem to be getting constantly is:

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JSONObject["type"] not found

Now, this happens no matter what I have in the descriptions file, that includes pasting data straight into the file from mods that already work and pasting data straight in from the core game.

This of course leads me to believe that in my tinkering I've deleted a core file somewhere that makes all this work. It's worth noting that if I remove the descriptions file from my mod it works perfectly. Help???

LGrey

[Deathfly]

Maybe you are using UTF-8 with BOM and that header will cause this issue. Try to use ANSI or UTF-8 without BOM to save it(You may need notepad or notepad ++ to do so).

And glad to see you alive.

[Lucian Greymark]

*blinks* utf-8??? I'm just using ms-excel bro. Idk

[Zudgemud]

Don't use excel, for me personally excel kept on *** up various starsector documents for a long time, on a seemingly random basis too. Use notepad or something even more useful like notepad++ or eclipse, I swapped to those and never had any problem after the switch.

[Lucian Greymark]

so what... jsut open the file in notepad++? aightio, brb

[Deathfly]

so what... jsut open the file in notepad++? aightio, brb

then check the format tab, and you should understand what did I said one you do that.

[Lucian Greymark]

Kay, that is making sense now, but it didn't help. I'm still getting the same error

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{
	[
		#id,type,text1,text2,text3,notes
		"scion_intervention,SHIP,"Snip.",,,"
	]
}

Kay, so there's what I'm working with

(encoded with utf-8 (w/o bom)

[Deathfly]

Your quotes is in the wrong place.

      "scion_intervention,SHIP,"Snip.",,,"

It should be looked like this.

"scion_intervention",SHIP,"Snip.",,,

[Lucian Greymark]

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Fatal:JSONObject["id"] not found

That's what I get with:

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{
	[
		#id,type,text1,text2,text3,notes
		"scion_intervention",SHIP,"Snip.",,,
	]
}

[Zudgemud]

Well, like all error searching, start from the last functional backup that you have.
Just reading your reported error I assume you misplaced a comma somewhere or misspelled some some setting related to the "type" of object being described.

I bet you can solve any eventual excel problem in a simple setting adjustment or whatever, but for me it was just easier to start using other programs instead.

[Lucian Greymark]

Okay, I fixed it, had to get rid of the {} and [] and "" around the values. Works fine now. Thanks for the help anyway lads.

As for working from a previous backup, I'd have to reinstall win7 for that lol

for anyone who cares the final layout just looked like this in notepad++ with utf-8 encoding

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id,type,text1,text2,text3,notes
scion_intervention,SHIP,"Snip.",,,

I'll be updating my download just as soon as I've got all the other descriptions transferred over.

[Tartiflette]

Don't put unnecessary spaces in the descriptions, even for formatting... It's prone to create errors.

[Lucian Greymark]

roger that, thanks tarti