Troubleshooting: *.ini files

Couldn't parse *.ini files - What to do?

You may see this error message when starting the tool or switching profiles:

The error message means that one of your *.ini files could not be read by the tool.
If you edited the file before, you might have introduced a typo.

You have two options on how to fix it:

• Reset the file to default (easy), or
• fix the typo.

Fixing the typo

If you don't want to lose any settings, you'll need to fix the syntax error (aka. typo).
You can click on "\/ Show details" and then on "Open *.ini file in text editor":

To name a few typos:

• Check if there's a missing bracket, e.g. [General should be [General]

• Check if there are too many brackets, e.g. [General]] should be [General]

• Check if there's an invalid key=value pair, e.g. a newline:

sResourceArchive2List=..., ..., ...,
something.ba2

• Everything has to be on one line:

sResourceArchive2List=..., ..., ..., something.ba2

• Check if there's a comment that doesn't start with a semicolon ';'.

; This is a valid comment
[AudioMenu]
fVal0=0.8 ; This is *NOT* a valid comment (at least not for the tool)

• Check if there's a key=value pair that is not separated by an equals sign '='.

; This is valid:
fVal0=0.8
; This is invalid:
fVal0 0.8