Hi!
I have a weird problem. I am delevoping a patch on a raspberry Pi 2 with Raspbian Jessie and Pd 0.49.
A few days ago, I worked a little bit on the patch. Everything was working fine.
Today, i wanted to open the patch, but I get this red Tcl error in the pd console:

(Tcl) UNHANDLED ERROR: extra characters after close-brace
while executing
"pdtk_text_new .x20d7230.c {.x20d7230.t22b35e0 obj text} 833.000000 245.000000 {<&ì°<=«¯<|®<»æ­<"­<è˫<ïª<Bª<|o©<úæ§< ("uplevel" body line 284)
invoked from within
"uplevel #0 $docmds"

Above this error message, I get a lot of "couldn't create" errors like this:

<&ì°<=«¯<|®<»æ­<"­<è˫<ïª<Bª<|o©<úæ§<ۦ<ƒ1¦<<õ¤<Ìa£<3 ¢<M¡<ëŸ<bUŸ<rٞ<ÿ7<V•›<Œ§š<ks™<~—<ù–<6v•<¥“<\\;ë‘< ·<× <¶úŽ<ݍ<˜­‹<ƥŠ<Ñýˆ<ó‡<d« <¶¸„<‡Pƒ<_º<\}€<?\}<QWz<&œw<\}Mu<%‹r<\\,Ro<wôk<Si<t!f<ŽÔb<Μ_<å-\\\\\\\\<û4X<bT<MlR<ÅHP<%ûL<¯ŸH<KfE<„ŸC<ÏA<ø¯=<K>:< 6<٦2<³v/<+Â\\\\\\,<ª+*<êw&<âH"<ùÜ<áÀ<Ć<V®<ŒH<½õ<ûâ<¦( <!F<¤Ò<Vºþ\\;kÊø\\\\\\;¬ó\\\\\\;—åí\\\\\\;«Bç\\\\\\;áß\\\\\\;ï\\\\\\,Ö\\\\\\;V²Î\\\\\\;-É\\\\\\; ÎÂ\\\\\\;[å»\\\\\\;ÿµ\\\\\\;§N°\\\\\\;k©\\\\\\;yآ\\\\\\;P\\\\\\;d#–\\\\\\;"5‘\\\\\\;]†‹\\\\\\;Ԇ„\\\\\\;|\;=ùq\\\;ýRf\\\;äYT\\\;ß%J\\\;}RB\\\;6\\\;·(\\\;”•\\\;¿ç\\\;˜( \;àð:š•Ì:sB²:UŠ:\\\\ސ:›.}:&àA:<:Ҵè9L†9ë=P8š¹Â& ¹äºD‚.º&ýQº b b
... couldn't create

Do you have any idea what could wrong? Thank you very much,
Jakki

@Jakki That is truly horrible gobbledegook....
I think you will need to upload your patch so it can be looked at.
Although, unless your patch is doing something very exotic, I would suggest re-installing / repairing your Pd installation.
I cannot imagine that any of the error message is meaningful.
David.

@whale-av
Hey David, thank you for your answer.
Yes, I can upload the patch, but the problem is that it does contain these weird characters now. You can see it when you look at its plain text. And this causes the patch to be more or less empty
RSP_Main_Generic.pd

@Jakki Hmm. It looks like there is just one object missing (well, not missing, but corrupt)....... whatever was top centre of the patch and in every copy of [pd MY_RSP_HID_PRECISER]

Other objects are missing for me on windows..... which is normal.
The worst problem is that all the connections in the patch are lost, but there is a remote chance they will come back when the problem is solved.

The patch is not going to recover the object I think. The object might still be working though.
Make a new patch and "put" that object onto a clean canvas. If it creates then it should be ok.
If not you will need to replace it, from wherever it came from.

I don't think you should edit the raw text contained in the patch in text mode. The chance of not making a mistake and destroying it is very high.

Make a backup of your patch from Pd.
I just deleted the "red-dotted" object above [hidio] and a couple of them in pd MY_RSP_HID_PRECISER ....... and saved the patch, and all the connections in the patch came back on reopening, which is good news.

If every copy of pd MY_RSP_HID_PRECISER was identical then I would.....
Make a new patch called MY_RSP_HID_PRECISER ........ so an abstraction, without the pd prefix.
Put the object inside.
Save it.
Then rename every copy of [pd MY_RSP_HID_PRECISER] in your patch to [MY_RSP_HID_PRECISER]

You can do that if they are all different, but you will need to use $ vatiables and arguments.

David.
PS....... I see there are a load more bad objects hidden away in the main window.
But they all look similar. Any idea what they were? Could you upload the object that was inside [pd MY_RSP_HID_PRECISER] (In a ZIP folder is easiest).

@whale-av
Hey David,
thank you very much for your help! I will try your suggestions tomorrow and I will also upload the MY_RSP_HID_PRECISER object.
..if you still need it...because I just realised that I have the last working version of the patch. It does not contain my latest changes ( which is bad ) but it is quite up to date and contains almost everything.
So you should be able to have a look everywhere.

RSP_Main_Generic14_Feb_2019.pd

Please let me know, if I should upload something else.
Thank you ! Jakki

@Jakki Hello again.
I spent 4 hours last night deleting all the corrupted objects.
Every time I deleted one another popped up on reopening the window, and more correct objects appeared and more of them were properly connected.
However, even once the patch was "clean" it was not as complete as the working patch you last posted.

Here is your last posted patch with [MY_RSP_HID_PRECISER] as an abstraction, which makes the main patch a little lighter (smaller file)......... generic_feb.zip

If fact, you can replace the contents of [MY_RSP_HID_PRECISER] with just one object........
[change] will do the same job all on its own.

I think it will be easier to move on again from the older working patch than to try to save the bad one.
It looks like it was [trigger] that was mostly corrupted......
David

@whale-av
Hey David, wow! Thank you so much for your help. I really appreciate it!
Yes, I will take the last working version and start with that again.
Before that, I will install a clean raspbian operating system and pd.
The operating system that I am using is already quite old and I know, that when I was updating to pd 0.49 on that system, I had some h-file from tcl missing and I think that I just grabbed the missing file from somewhere I don't remember now. But I was definitely not knowing what I was doing.... That is the only explanation I have for this weird issue.

Thank you again for your help and your time!

@Jakki You are very welcome......
......... and you are living proof that it is worthwhile making backups....
David.

@whale-av
Yes, I learned it the hard way a few years ago