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When I start Inkscape a warning comes up to say the Inkscape preferences is not a valid xml file and preferences will not be saved. Using Windows 8.1. How can I fix this?

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Best Hachmann (marenhachmann) said : 		#1

Hi Jez,

Did Inkscape crash on you before that error occured? It could be that it was just writing into the file when it crashed and as the file was not finished, it is now invalid.

I've got no idea where that file is located on a Windows machine.
The name is 'preferences.xml' and it contains the word 'inkscape' (in case you want to search your files for it).
If you can find it, you should just delete it (or better rename it, to be safe).
I'd expect Inkscape to create a new one if the file is missing.

Regards,
 Maren

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Jez (jnorgan) said : 		#2

Trashing the preferences fle seems to have worked. The preferences file was located in users-username-appsdata-roaming-inkscape

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Jez (jnorgan) said : 		#3

Hi Maren
trashing the preferences seems to have worked
thanks
Jez

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Hachmann proposed the following answer:
Hi Jez,

Did Inkscape crash on you before that error occured? It could be that it
was just writing into the file when it crashed and as the file was not
finished, it is now invalid.

I've got no idea where that file is located on a Windows machine.
The name is 'preferences.xml' and it contains the word 'inkscape' (in case you want to search your files for it).
If you can find it, you should just delete it (or better rename it, to be safe).
I'd expect Inkscape to create a new one if the file is missing.

Regards,
 Maren

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