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<blockquote data-quote="richardb70" data-source="post: 1000608" data-attributes="member: 123477">Hi,&nbsp;Strange problem with 1.3.0 last night. MePo crashed on startup, ditto if you went via config, so no logs to post, sorry. Windows reported some XML issues so I painstakingly went through all the XML files I could find, first of all looking for 0 bytes and then checking each one for content. Turns out my mediaportal.xml (and its backup) were full of spaces but no XML. No idea at all how this happened. Seems the &quot;cure&quot; is to delete these files and then re-do all the config from scratch.&nbsp;Any ideas how these files could have been corrupted so badly? Before I tracked it down, I tried to reinstall MePo using the installer, and maybe I'm being thick but as it detected I already had an installation, it did nothing, so the advice here:&nbsp;<a href="http://wiki.team-mediaportal.com/1_MEDIAPORTAL_1/12_Installation#Reinstall" target="_blank">http://wiki.team-mediaportal.com/1_MEDIAPORTAL_1/12_Installation#Reinstall</a>&nbsp;Doesn't seem quite right. Many thanks in advance!&nbsp;Specs: Windows 7, Celeron CPU, 4Gb, SSD, GT440 GPU.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="richardb70, post: 1000608, member: 123477"] Hi, Strange problem with 1.3.0 last night. MePo crashed on startup, ditto if you went via config, so no logs to post, sorry. Windows reported some XML issues so I painstakingly went through all the XML files I could find, first of all looking for 0 bytes and then checking each one for content. Turns out my mediaportal.xml (and its backup) were full of spaces but no XML. No idea at all how this happened. Seems the "cure" is to delete these files and then re-do all the config from scratch. Any ideas how these files could have been corrupted so badly? Before I tracked it down, I tried to reinstall MePo using the installer, and maybe I'm being thick but as it detected I already had an installation, it did nothing, so the advice here: [url]http://wiki.team-mediaportal.com/1_MEDIAPORTAL_1/12_Installation#Reinstall[/url] Doesn't seem quite right. Many thanks in advance! Specs: Windows 7, Celeron CPU, 4Gb, SSD, GT440 GPU. [/QUOTE]

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