Question / Help Edit scenes.xconfig

[Marin Taverniers]

Hi, and first of all I'm really sorry for my bad english !

I recently reorganized all my files (images, text file...) that are used in my scenes in OBS, but I had to change all the paths of the files in each scene, and I have hundreds and hundreds paths to change (yes, I have many scenes and sources...) !

So I decided to edit the "scenes.xconfig" file (with a note-pad), where I directly changed all the paths more easily (and just that, nothing else !). I saved the file, launched OBS, but now it doesn't show any of my scenes, seems it can't load the file... Is there any method to edit the .xconfig file ? Or is it impossible to change anything into it ?..

Thanks, and have a good day !

 

[R1CH]

Try saving as plain UTF-8, not UTF-8 signature.

 

[Marin Taverniers]

What do you mean by "plain UTF-8" ? When I save the file, I have the choice between ANSI, Unicode, Unicode big endian, UTF-8, but nothing worked...

 

[Montclair]

I had the same problem. Selecting ANSI worked for me.

 

[Marin Taverniers]

Thanks, I think I found something : I replaced every "é, è, ê" character by "e", same thing with "à", "ô" in the file, and ANSI worked ! But now, even if I change text sources in OBS, every accentuated character becomes an unknown symbol when I exit and relaunch OBS... Do you have any idea ?

 

[Marin Taverniers]

Does anybody have an idea ?..

 

[FerretBomb]

Sounds like those characters aren't supported by the ANSI standard, and as you've saved it as ANSI, OBS is trying to edit/re-save it as the same format. So it just ends up with unidentified characters.

So yes the workaround worked, since OBS can read ANSI text. But it also broke compliance, because ANSI can't store those characters. Resave it as plain UTF-8 like it should be (and R1CH said to do). If your text editor doesn't give you the option for plain UTF-8, get a better text editor. Notepad++ generally works well.

 

[Marin Taverniers]

Thank you so much, it finally worked with Notepad++ !! It's the first time I am using it, I created a new file, I did a copy/paste of the code, saved as a .txt in plain UTF-8, renamed the file with the .xconfig, and it finally worked !

Thanks again, and have a good day ! :D