arbd 3_2_1 won't open my xml files

I read an old thread discussing this but never came to an answer

My arbd wont open my xml files, instead I get an error message

OS win 8

Even new decks that I save can't be opened

what the hell?

No idea what's wrong there, but it seems to me that the newest release of ARDB is really flaky generally. I recently tried to install it on Windows 7 (running in a Parallels virtual machine), and it failed miserably. It started up fine initially, but later started failing with all sorts of "cannot access database" errors. Retried install from scratch multiple times, same effect.

Gave up and installed an OS X version of an earlier build, that seems to work fine.

PetriWessman wrote:

Gave up and installed an OS X version of an earlier build, that seems to work fine.

Same here, running 3.1.1 beta on OSX as is most stable version. Thankfully both images and card lists can be updated and it can be modified to export to other formats (mainly lackey for me).

I would recommend trying an older version — back up all of your deck lists first though. If I recall correctly opening decks with a corrupted or bad card list causes issues with the deck. The decks are just XML, so you can open them in a text editor / chrome if needed.

I reported a bug a while ago. Don't know if there is any progress though.

Thanks guys. Installed an older version, updated it, and now I´m all set

(test post, ignore)