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Windows 10 : A Javascript Error occurred in the main process

November 10, 2021 at 5:08 pm #6537
[anonymous]
Version : 0.38.3

I tried to launch Publii today as usual, but I kept getting an error with the following message :

A javascript error occured in the main process.

Uncaught exception:

Syntax error : Unexpected token

I googled it and found a few blog posts and youtube videos about a similar bug on the discord desktop app for Windows 10.

Unfortunately, I didn’t get much success with those solutions.

Here are a few links to those articles :
I’m stuck right and I’d be really glad to get some help.

Thanks.
November 10, 2021 at 9:50 pm #6539

[anonymous]

Hi,

It seems that one of the JSON config files is corrupted.

Please try the following:

1) Rename Publii/config directory to Publii/__config – if Publii will start then we will need to check your app config files

2) If above point won’t help – please rename Publii/sites catalog to Publii/__sites and create new empty Publii/sites catalog. If Publii will start properly, then problem is connected with one of your sites configuration.

November 11, 2021 at 10:48 am #6547

[anonymous]

Thank you, Tomasz.

Your solution worked perfectly.

I checked the config directory of the last site I modified when Publii was still working.

The sites.config.json file was completely corrupted.

I just had to replace it with the same file from my last backup to make Publii work again.

Thank you very much.

November 11, 2021 at 11:53 am #6548

[anonymous]

Great to hear 🙂