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Alteryx Error

MonaAlmutairi
8 - Asteroid

Hi everyone,

 

I'm trying to open one of my workflows, and this message is showing:

 

there was an error pening (my workflow name).yxmd unexpected end of file while parsing name has occured line 7941 poisition 16

 

 

and this is the line mentioned in the error message:

 

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Thank you.

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caltang
17 - Castor
17 - Castor

Please refer here: https://community.alteryx.com/t5/Alteryx-Designer-Desktop-Knowledge-Base/Error-opening-file-Unexpect...

 

Can you still open your file? If not, then I'm sorry to say that your file has ceased to be. 

In plain English, your file is corrupted. Can't be used anymore.

 

This happens sometimes and can be a bummer. Please use your back-up file with the extension .bak, and rename it to the workflow's original extension of yxmd.

 

Please find documentation here:

  1. https://community.alteryx.com/t5/Alteryx-Designer-Desktop-Knowledge-Base/Error-opening-file-Unexpect...
  2. https://community.alteryx.com/t5/Alteryx-Designer-Desktop-Discussions/Error-opening-yxmd-file/td-p/7... 

Hope this helps.

Calvin Tang
Alteryx ACE
https://www.linkedin.com/in/calvintangkw/
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