Project opening error - illegal character found

• If you may have an issue where a Show don't open correctly, with the error message "Failed to open Show as an illegal character was found in the Show file. Illegal character found on line: x at position: y"
  

• You may have to manualy delete this illegal character ; to do this :

1. Download NotePad++ : https://notepad-plus-plus.org/download/v6.9.2.html
   
   
2. Open your Ovation Show in NotePad++
   
   
3. Go to the line & position specify by the error message
   
   
   
   
4. Delete the illegal character
   
   
5. Then save it and reopen your Show in Ovation
   
   

• You may have to reiterate this operation as long as some illegal character were found

• As of Ovation v6.1 our error message will indicate the invalid character line and character position. Users that are on v6.0 or prior can send their project to support@merging.com for correction

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