I "broke" ASP. strange lua console error on files

[heyvern]

After unsuccessfully trying to create a custom bone selection tool I have given up and put the old one back in place.

Unfortunately now I get these two weird lua console errors every time I open ASP:

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Anime Studio Pro\scripts\tool\._lm_select_bone.lua:1: invalid control char near 'char(0)'

Anime Studio Pro\scripts\tool\._hv_select_bone.lua:1: invalid control char near 'char(0)'

The second one is referencing a file THAT NO LONGER EXISTS!!!! What the heck is going on? I deleted all references and copies of that file from the ASP directory. Are there some weird invisible files? Notice the underscore in front of the name? I searched the computer and there are no files with an underscore in front of the name. The only copies of that file are in a completely different folder.

Any help would be appreciated.

I guess I will stick with layer scripts from now on.

-vern

[human]

The second one is referencing a file THAT NO LONGER EXISTS!!!! What the heck is going on? I deleted all references and copies of that file from the ASP directory.

If you were using Windows, I would guess that the Registry keys for AS have become corrupted.

It would mean finding those keys and deleting them. One hopes this would not entail a re-installation of the application.

But since you are using that icky alternative computer, I don't know the corresponding functionality.

(Just kidding about the icky!)

[heyvern]

I am using Windows. I only have ASP on windows because my Mac isn't Tiger yet.

So... look at the registry... okay... I will give it a shot...

uh... where do I look? I just looked around and there isn't anything related to Anime Studio... <sigh> I should just reinstall I suppose.


-vern

[heyvern]

Hey I found two keys that match:

._hv_select_bone.lua
._lm_select_bone.lua

which are the two items listed in the lua error console... now what?

Do I delete them or edit the "bad" character in front? The "."?


Never mind. Just some values from the search I did for those files. How disappointing.

-vern

[human]

Hey I found two keys that match:

._hv_select_bone.lua
._lm_select_bone.lua

which are the two items listed in the lua error console... now what?

Do I delete them or edit the "bad" character in front? The "."?


Never mind. Just some values from the search I did for those files. How disappointing.

-vern

If you haven't tried this yet, do a search for "lua" and see what turns up. Surely there can't be many keys for lua in the entire registry...

(Unless you've been involved with a lot of party planning in Hawaii...)

[Genete]

Just a shot.
A dot in the beginning of a file name make it a hidden one in linux... In fact the hidden attribute does not exist in linux (I think...)
._G

[heyvern]

Haha!

I have a Mac and a PC on a small network. I would edit my scripts and save them directly to the PC.

The "._" (dot underscore) in front of a file name is the resource fork of a Mac file.

The only trouble is... they are still not visible. Those little resource fork files are "hidden" inside my scripts/tool directory and I can't "see" them.


By the way this is Win2k I'm using.

-vern

[heyvern]

Fixed it!

Somehow, I had turned off show invisible items on my PC. I always thought this was an option in the search on Windows, that it would search for invisible items.

Anyway I found the invisible mac files and deleted them. Usually they aren't invisible on the PC and I delete them by hand... oh well. Live and learn.

Something weird happened. I do a lot of stuff with mac and pc network and don't have this issue.

-vern