#8 Can’t zoom wider than 1200 years

[roger lindberg]

Timeline should not be able to zoom wider than 1200 years. But unfortunately, this happens sometimes, and a period larger than 1200 years gets written to the .timeline file.

When this happens, you can no longer open the file.

This is a bug in timeline that we should fix.

[roger lindberg]

Workaround solution: there is a workaround that you can use to fix the problem yourself.

The .timeline file is actually just an xml file. In there, somewhere around the bottom of the file, you should find this section:

<displayed_period>
  <start>2013-09-28 00:10:06</start>
  <end>2013-10-09 20:34:55</end>
</displayed_period>

If you open the .timeline file in a text editor and change the start and end dates to be a period less than 1200 years, you should be able to open your file again.

Make sure that you save the file with UTF-8 encoding.

[roger lindberg]

If a too long display period is saved in the timelinefile, the display period is set to the default display period when that file is opened.