error at line 1... How do I fix this, and how did it happen to begin with?

[Ginlea64]

I went to load up my game this morning and get hit with this message. "Error:yaml-cpp:error at line 1, column 3: unknown escape character."

 

I have no idea how this happened as it was working yesterday. Also, uninstall and reinstall did not work.

[Tannin42]

You are providing way too little information, neither did you give use the entire error message nor did you even tell us which game you're talking about.

So I have to guess: You're modding a bethesda game and this error message is generated by loot as it's trying to parse the masterlist or - more likely - the userlist.

The reason this would happen is because either you manually messed around with these files, because you had a severe hardware outage that caused the files to get corrupted or there was a network error when vortex tried to fetch the loot masterlist.

 

More generally: yaml is a file format that some tools, not Vortex itself though, use to store data or configuration settings. The error message says that such a yaml file is corrupted. Why, how and when the file got corrupted no one other than yourself has any chance of knowing.

[Ginlea64]

This looks to be about right, so how do I find the corrupted file and fix it? Also, I actually don't like to go messing around in those files because I know that I very well could jack things up. So that is something I try to avoid unless I have really good instructions, which I don't , so, I don't mess with that stuff cuz I am not well versed in code. I wanted to copy the script message but it refused, and pen and paper are currently somewhere not here.

[Ginlea64]

Found writing things..

 

Error: yaml-cpp: error at line 1, column 3: unknown escape character:

at l.handleResponse (C:ProgramFiles\BlackTreeGamingLtd\Vortex\resources\app.asar.unpacked\bundledPlugins\gamebryo-plugin-management\index.js:31:34813)

at C:ProgramFiles\BlackTreeGamingLtd\Vortex\resources\app.asar.unpacked\bundledPlugins\gamebryo-plugin-management\index.js:31:33289)

at Array.forEach(<anonymous>)

at Socket.<anonymous>(C:ProgramFiles\BlackTreeGamingLtd\Vortex\resources\app.asar.unpacked\bundledPlugins\gamebryo-plugin-management\index.js:31:33273)

at Socket.emit(events.js:315:20)

at addChunk(_steam_readable.js:295:12)

at readableAddChunk(_steam_readable.js:271:9)

at Socket.Readable.push(_steam_readable.js:212:10)

at Pipe.onStreamRead(internal/steam_base_commons.js:186:23)

[Ginlea64]

I went to load up my game this morning and get hit with this message. "Error:yaml-cpp:error at line 1, column 3: unknown escape character."

 

I have no idea how this happened as it was working yesterday. Also, uninstall and reinstall did not work.

 

 

Found writing things..

 

Error: yaml-cpp: error at line 1, column 3: unknown escape character:

at l.handleResponse (C:ProgramFiles\BlackTreeGamingLtd\Vortex\resources\app.asar.unpacked\bundledPlugins\gamebryo-plugin-management\index.js:31:34813)

at C:ProgramFiles\BlackTreeGamingLtd\Vortex\resources\app.asar.unpacked\bundledPlugins\gamebryo-plugin-management\index.js:31:33289)

at Array.forEach(<anonymous>)

at Socket.<anonymous>(C:ProgramFiles\BlackTreeGamingLtd\Vortex\resources\app.asar.unpacked\bundledPlugins\gamebryo-plugin-management\index.js:31:33273)

at Socket.emit(events.js:315:20)

at addChunk(_steam_readable.js:295:12)

at readableAddChunk(_steam_readable.js:271:9)

at Socket.Readable.push(_steam_readable.js:212:10)

at Pipe.onStreamRead(internal/steam_base_commons.js:186:23)

 

[showler]

He didn't "quit responding". He's in Germany and it's around 3am there right now.

[Ginlea64]

ok then. that would have been nice to know, and now I sound like an ass..

[Tannin42]

Inside Vortex->Plugins there is an option to "Reset Masterlist", that would remove and re-fetch the masterlist.

If that doesn't fix it, it's probably the userlist. That you can find at C:\Users\<userid>\AppData\Roaming\Vortex\<gameid>\userlist.yaml

userid is your windows account name, gameid is something like skyrimse or fallout4, whatever the game you're playing is.

[Ginlea64]

Now there is a new error message...

 

LOOT userlist :C:users\ginle\AppData\Roaming\Vortex\fallout4\userlist.yaml

 

can't be read. you should quit vortex now and repair the file. if (and only if!) you're certain you didn't modify the file yourself. please send in a bug report with file attached.

 

Tries looking for the Vortex->Plugins on my rig to Reset Masterlist, and it refused to be found, and I have no idea where this file is that I am to attach to this bug report.

 

Also, apologies for my ignorant asshattedness. One more thing. This is only coming up with Fallout 4 and not for New Vegas.

[Pickysaurus]

So the error seems pretty clear to me. The file at C:users\ginle\AppData\Roaming\Vortex\fallout4\userlist.yaml is corrupted in some way. You can either try and repair it or delete it. If you want you can copy the contents of that file into a reply and we'll see if we can see what is wrong with it.

 

Deleting that file will reset all your custom plugin rules and groups for Fallout 4.