I tried to open my Taskcoach today and when the file opened it was empty!
I did go to my "backup" file and found a recent taskcoach there. When I opened it, it seemed up to date, but of course I have no idea how to make it my "regular" taskcoach file.
By the way, when I tried to open taskcoach a "taskcoach file error" box opened. It said "error while reading..." and then gave a file from one of my computer's folders, which contains a lot of photos. One of the files in (with the other photos) is a "19e4-6624" file, which Windows Explorer has put in a "jpg.lock" folder. No idea what that is all about or why this particular photo is involved.
I also get a message to see "taskcoach log.txt" in my "my documents" folder.
There, I get the following:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "taskcoachlib\gui\iocontroller.pyo", line 121, in open
File "taskcoachlib\persistence\taskfile.pyo", line 442, in load
File "taskcoachlib\persistence\taskfile.pyo", line 312, in load
File "taskcoachlib\persistence\taskfile.pyo", line 293, in _read
File "taskcoachlib\persistence\xml\reader.pyo", line 88, in read
File "xml\etree\ElementTree.pyo", line 1183, in parse
File "xml\etree\ElementTree.pyo", line 656, in parse
File "xml\etree\ElementTree.pyo", line 1643, in feed
File "xml\etree\ElementTree.pyo", line 1507, in _raiseerror
ParseError: not well-formed (invalid token): line 1, column 0
This is absolute gibberish to me.
Can you please tell me what I've done wrong?
Can you please tell me how to turn my "backup" file (which seems to be fine) into the regular taskcoach file?
Any suggestions will be appreciated!
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You've done nothing wrong, it looks like your filesystem was corrupted, probably because of a power outage / unclean shutdown. The error traceback just shows that the regular .tsk file is corrupted.
Since you have a backup, just use "Save as" in the File menu and overwrite the old task file.
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Thank you for answering my question so quickly and reassuring me that I have not lost all my records! I have saved the backup file as "taskcoach.tsk" in my program file, and somehow, mysteriously, this file actually opens up when I click on the taskcoach icon on my screen. I hope I will not have to bother you again...at least for awhile!
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I tried to open my Taskcoach today and when the file opened it was empty!
I did go to my "backup" file and found a recent taskcoach there. When I opened it, it seemed up to date, but of course I have no idea how to make it my "regular" taskcoach file.
By the way, when I tried to open taskcoach a "taskcoach file error" box opened. It said "error while reading..." and then gave a file from one of my computer's folders, which contains a lot of photos. One of the files in (with the other photos) is a "19e4-6624" file, which Windows Explorer has put in a "jpg.lock" folder. No idea what that is all about or why this particular photo is involved.
I also get a message to see "taskcoach log.txt" in my "my documents" folder.
There, I get the following:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "taskcoachlib\gui\iocontroller.pyo", line 121, in open
File "taskcoachlib\persistence\taskfile.pyo", line 442, in load
File "taskcoachlib\persistence\taskfile.pyo", line 312, in load
File "taskcoachlib\persistence\taskfile.pyo", line 293, in _read
File "taskcoachlib\persistence\xml\reader.pyo", line 88, in read
File "xml\etree\ElementTree.pyo", line 1183, in parse
File "xml\etree\ElementTree.pyo", line 656, in parse
File "xml\etree\ElementTree.pyo", line 1643, in feed
File "xml\etree\ElementTree.pyo", line 1507, in _raiseerror
ParseError: not well-formed (invalid token): line 1, column 0
This is absolute gibberish to me.
Can you please tell me what I've done wrong?
Can you please tell me how to turn my "backup" file (which seems to be fine) into the regular taskcoach file?
Any suggestions will be appreciated!
You've done nothing wrong, it looks like your filesystem was corrupted, probably because of a power outage / unclean shutdown. The error traceback just shows that the regular .tsk file is corrupted.
Since you have a backup, just use "Save as" in the File menu and overwrite the old task file.
Thank you for answering my question so quickly and reassuring me that I have not lost all my records! I have saved the backup file as "taskcoach.tsk" in my program file, and somehow, mysteriously, this file actually opens up when I click on the taskcoach icon on my screen. I hope I will not have to bother you again...at least for awhile!
You're welcome :)
In case still using or want to come back to Task Coach, it's now finally getting updated again but moved to https://github.com/taskcoach/taskcoach
Cheers