Help! Today, after the Construct 3 update R397, I couldn't open any projects

Hi,

Can anyone help to find out an way to identify files which has "space" in begining or end? I could not find any but still the project does not open in R397.

Thanks a lot!

I could not find any but still the project does not open in R397.

Press F12 and check error messages in console log.

> I could not find any but still the project does not open in R397.

Press F12 and check error messages in console log.

Oh thanks for this! I didn't think of that right away and have a large project - was browsing through thinking I'd never find them.

If the new version of Construct isn't going to allow these filenames, I wonder if a hotfix can be applied to the previous version to trim these spaces on filenames.

I've just come across this post because I was wondering why my project is not opening and I am receiving an error message about the file type. I viewed the console and couldn't make sense of what the problem was. I did change the file name/type from ".c3p" to ".zip", extracted - then confirm if the file had the correct image and it was confirmed to me. I was not readily aware of the "exact" problem until I seen this post. So I closed out the spaces in the image name and made the corrections.

However, When I changed it back to .c3p, it proceeded to show me another error in the console. Fixed it again, compress, extract etc and THEN it showed me another error in the console etc. This maybe a problem for alot of the objects I have in my game.

The reality is, that like many of us developers who are so far into development- my game is HUGE! There are a multitude (perhaps) hundreds of objects in the project that could have this issue.

This really is annoying considering that I cannot use it on the current version of construct. Granted, I was able to open the project in r388.2, Though admittedly I would hope they fix this.

To fix it you can do this:

1. Open the project in the current version of construct. Press F12 and check error messages in console log.Important!:This can be the name of a file, event sheet or even the name of an animation (example: button_resume-eng-000.png - here "eng" is the name of the animation)

2. Open the project in the previous release r388.2

3. Go through the Project Bar and make sure nothing has a name that starts or ends with a space. Considering the error you saw in the console log.

4. Save the project

5. Open it again in the current version of construct. If there is one more error, go to step "1". And repeat in a circle until the errors when opening in the current version disappear.

how do you open the project in an older version

how do you open the project in an older version

Unpack c3p file into a folder. Open project.c3proj file in any text editor and update this string:

"savedWithRelease": 39700

> how do you open the project in an older version

Unpack c3p file into a folder. Open project.c3proj file in any text editor and update this string:

"savedWithRelease": 39700

Thanks, I changed that number to 38800 and opened it in r388.2. The clear answer to me is to just continue working in that version instead of ever updating, until a future update ever fixes this issue or at least tells us in an easy pop-up what exactly to fix.

Is there a way to tell my desktop shortcut of the C3 app to go to r388.2 instead of the latest version? When I install the app it always results in the latest version instead. Thanks

Wait, it gave the same error in r388.2 anyway. I thought opening it in r388.2 was the fix. I made a post about my issue here if anyone can help: construct.net/en/forum/construct-3/how-do-i-8/fix-case-failed-open-project-183305