Settings file corrupt

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What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. I cleaned up some of my shared files when the program was not running. 
2.
3.

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
It now crashes when I try to open the program again saying "Settings file 
corrupted". 

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
The latest beta version or Windows Xp. 

Please provide any additional information below.
Its the same error as in 
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=2909335&group_id=166584
&atid=839591 (which has no solution given)

Original issue reported on code.google.com by eddie9...@gmail.com on 14 Jun 2010 at 3:09

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Look at data folder for settings.xml and settings.xml.bak.
Correct files should end with </settings>. "bak" should be correct so you can 
try replace "xml" one.

Error report at that link is from old b735 so it's not very helpful because 
current version is b1161.

Original comment by Bastv...@gmail.com on 14 Jun 2010 at 9:41

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I can't find any settings folder (or a Data folder either). 

The error report is:

Fatal Error report generated at Mon Jun 14 20:08:07 EST 2010

Human readable error: 
Error: java.lang.Exception: Settings file is corrupt. Tried to used backed up 
version but failed. Sorry.

System properties: 

java.runtime.name:
Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment

sun.boot.library.path:
C:\Program Files\Java\jre6\bin

java.vm.version:
16.3-b01

java.vm.vendor:
Sun Microsystems Inc.

java.vendor.url:
http://java.sun.com/

path.separator:
;

java.vm.name:
Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM

file.encoding.pkg:
sun.io

sun.java.launcher:
SUN_STANDARD

user.country:
GB

sun.os.patch.level:
Service Pack 3

java.vm.specification.name:
Java Virtual Machine Specification

user.dir:
C:\Documents and Settings\Eddie\Desktop\alliance-v1.1.0d-1161\Alliance

java.runtime.version:
1.6.0_20-b02

java.awt.graphicsenv:
sun.awt.Win32GraphicsEnvironment

java.endorsed.dirs:
C:\Program Files\Java\jre6\lib\endorsed

os.arch:
x86

java.io.tmpdir:
C:\DOCUME~1\Eddie\LOCALS~1\Temp\

line.separator:

java.vm.specification.vendor:
Sun Microsystems Inc.

user.variant:

os.name:
Windows XP

sun.jnu.encoding:
Cp1252

java.library.path:
C:\Program 
Files\Java\jre6\launch4j-tmp;.;C:\WINDOWS\Sun\Java\bin;C:\WINDOWS\system32;C:\WI
NDOWS;C:\WINDOWS\system32;C:\WINDOWS;C:\WINDOWS\System32\Wbem;c:\Program 
Files\Common Files\Lenovo;c:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL 
Server\90\Tools\binn\;C:\Program Files\QuickTime\QTSystem\;C:\Program 
Files\Java\jre6\bin

java.specification.name:
Java Platform API Specification

java.class.version:
50.0

sun.management.compiler:
HotSpot Client Compiler

os.version:
5.1

user.home:
C:\Documents and Settings\Eddie

user.timezone:
Australia/Sydney

java.awt.printerjob:
sun.awt.windows.WPrinterJob

file.encoding:
Cp1252

java.specification.version:
1.6

java.class.path:
C:\Documents and 
Settings\Eddie\Desktop\alliance-v1.1.0d-1161\Alliance\alliance.dat

user.name:
Eddie

java.vm.specification.version:
1.0

java.home:
C:\Program Files\Java\jre6

sun.arch.data.model:
32

user.language:
en

java.specification.vendor:
Sun Microsystems Inc.

awt.toolkit:
sun.awt.windows.WToolkit

java.vm.info:
mixed mode, sharing

java.version:
1.6.0_20

java.ext.dirs:
C:\Program Files\Java\jre6\lib\ext;C:\WINDOWS\Sun\Java\lib\ext

sun.boot.class.path:
C:\Program Files\Java\jre6\lib\resources.jar;C:\Program 
Files\Java\jre6\lib\rt.jar;C:\Program 
Files\Java\jre6\lib\sunrsasign.jar;C:\Program 
Files\Java\jre6\lib\jsse.jar;C:\Program Files\Java\jre6\lib\jce.jar;C:\Program 
Files\Java\jre6\lib\charsets.jar;C:\Program Files\Java\jre6\classes

java.vendor:
Sun Microsystems Inc.

file.separator:
\

java.vendor.url.bug:
http://java.sun.com/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi

sun.io.unicode.encoding:
UnicodeLittle

sun.cpu.endian:
little

sun.desktop:
windows

alliance.build:
1161

sun.cpu.isalist:
pentium_pro+mmx pentium_pro pentium+mmx pentium i486 i386 i86

Error stack trace: 
java.lang.Exception: Settings file is corrupt. Tried to used backed up version 
but failed. Sorry.
    at org.alliance.core.CoreSubsystem.loadSettings(CoreSubsystem.java:278)
    at org.alliance.core.CoreSubsystem.loadSettings(CoreSubsystem.java:235)
    at org.alliance.core.CoreSubsystem.init(CoreSubsystem.java:138)
    at org.alliance.launchers.ui.Main.initCore(Main.java:243)
    at org.alliance.launchers.ui.Main.main(Main.java:76)
Caused by: org.xml.sax.SAXParseException: Premature end of file.
    at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.parsers.DOMParser.parse(Unknown Source)
    at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.jaxp.DocumentBuilderImpl.parse(Unknown Source)
    at org.alliance.core.CoreSubsystem.loadSettings(CoreSubsystem.java:248)
    ... 4 more

Original comment by eddie9...@gmail.com on 14 Jun 2010 at 10:11

[GoogleCodeExporter]

Data should be at C:\Documents and Settings\<yourusername>\Application 
Data\Alliance
It looks like you don't have a settings.xml.bak file (or can't be loaded).

If you are using windows XP you can copy 'portable' file to application folder. 
This will force Alliance to store all data in one place (application folder). 

Original comment by Bastv...@gmail.com on 14 Jun 2010 at 12:57

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%APPDATA%\Alliance\data

Original comment by info%tim...@gtempaccount.com on 29 Jun 2010 at 11:34