Goldwave 6.76 xml error

[raphael75]

I have Kubuntu 22.04, KDE, and wine 8.0.1. I get this error when starting Goldwave 6.76:

"Invalid GoldWave.xml settings file must be reset.
You may wish to make a copy of the old settings file before proceeding.
Error: error
Line: 0"

Has anyone else received this error or found a fix?

[invisible kid]

Sorry, I won't be able to help directly, but might be able to help troubleshoot as a fellow user. I would first see if that file exists in your ~/.wine folder:

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find ~/.wine -name GoldWave.xml 2>/dev/null

You might need to change "~/.wine" depending on where and what your .wine is named.

If it's missing, that might be the problem.
If it's there, I might try renaming it and re-launching. It might recreate a good one.
If that doesn't work, maybe open it up with an editor and see what's in there. Good luck!

[raphael75]

Thanks for your quick reply! I ran that command and it did find the xml file, and it had 102K of data. I'm not sure what Goldwave doesn't like about the file.

[invisible kid]

If you want you can try renaming it and running the program to see if it will create a new one. You can always change it back by renaming it back to the original name.

[jkfloris]

Open the GoldWave.xml file in your favorite text editor, and change the first line from

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-16"?>

to

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>

[raphael75]

Open the GoldWave.xml file in your favorite text editor, and change the first line from

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-16"?>

to

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>

It looks like that fixed it. Thank you!