EXE won't open

[em997nz]

Hi there,

I was using OF.DL.V1.7.25 however am now trying to jump to OF.DL.V1.7.60. I have followed the instructions for this latest version however when I click in the "OF DL.exe" in the new version, the application does not open. I have added the application to the whilelist and disabled my firewall but still no luck.

Perhaps I installed the new version correctly?

[melithine]

Do you see any files in the log folder?

[em997nz]

Hi - there are no log files I can see. Where would they be located?

[melithine]

In a folder called logs under the directory where you have OF DL.exe. If you don't have that, try opening a PowerShell window, changing directories to where you have OF DL.exe, and running the exe directly (& 'OF DL.exe'). That will give you the output even if it has to exit.

[em997nz]

Thank you - I ran in PowerShell and this was the error message I got:

Exception caught: Unexpected character encountered while parsing value: <. Path '', line 0, position 0.

                                                                                                   StackTrace:    at Newtonsoft.Json.JsonTextReader.ParseValue()

at Newtonsoft.Json.JsonTextReader.Read() at Newtonsoft.Json.JsonReader.ReadForType(JsonContract contract, Boolean hasConverter) at Newtonsoft.Json.Serialization.JsonSerializerInternalReader.Deserialize(JsonReader reader, Type objectType, Boolean checkAdditionalContent) at Newtonsoft.Json.JsonSerializer.DeserializeInternal(JsonReader reader, Type objectType) at Newtonsoft.Json.JsonSerializer.Deserialize(JsonReader reader, Type objectType) at Newtonsoft.Json.JsonConvert.DeserializeObject(String value, Type type, JsonSerializerSettings settings) at OF_DL.Helpers.APIHelper.GetUserInfo(String endpoint, Auth auth) Exception caught: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.

                                                                   StackTrace:    at OF_DL.Program.Main()

[melithine]

Was there anything before the error, or just that?

[melithine]

And do you have rules.json in your ofdl directory?

[em997nz]

Was there anything before the error, or just that?

No errors before:

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\ \ / / | | | |_ / \ | | | \ | | \ \ /\ / / / _ \ | | / | / \ | ' ` \ / \ | | / \ | | | | | | _ | | | | | | \ V V / | / | | | ( | (_) | | | | | | | | / | | | () | | || | | | |____| | || | | |__ _/_/ \| || _| \/ || || || _| _| \/ __/ || |/ ||

yt-dlp.exe located successfully! ffmpeg.exe located successfully! mp4decrypt.exe located successfully! device_client_id_blob located successfully! device_private_key located successfully! Exception caught: Unexpected character encountered while parsing value: <. Path '', line 0, position 0.

[em997nz]

And do you have rules.json in your ofdl directory?

Yes I do

[melithine]

That doesn't look like OF DL 1.7.60; we don't use yt-dlp.exe or mp4decrypt.exe anymore, just ffmpeg.exe. Try extracting the files from the zip again.

[em997nz]

That doesn't look like OF DL 1.7.60; we don't use yt-dlp.exe or mp4decrypt.exe anymore, just ffmpeg.exe. Try extracting the files from the zip again.

You are correct - this is the error message with 1.7.60

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\ \ / / | | | |_ / \ | | | \ | | \ \ /\ / / / _ \ | | / | / \ | ' ` \ / \ | | / \ | | | | | | _ | | | | | | \ V V / | / | | | ( | (_) | | | | | | | | / | | | () | | || | | | |____| | || | | |__ _/_/ \| || _| \/ || || || _| _| \/ __/ || |/ ||

Valid version of Windows found. auth.json located successfully! config.json located successfully! FFmpeg located successfully device_client_id_blob located successfully! device_private_key located successfully! Exception caught: Unexpected character encountered while parsing value: <. Path '', line 0, position 0.

                                                                                                   StackTrace:    at Newtonsoft.Json.JsonTextReader.ParseValue()

at Newtonsoft.Json.JsonTextReader.Read() at Newtonsoft.Json.JsonReader.ReadAndMoveToContent() at Newtonsoft.Json.JsonReader.ReadForType(JsonContract contract, Boolean hasConverter) at Newtonsoft.Json.Serialization.JsonSerializerInternalReader.Deserialize(JsonReader reader, Type objectType, Boolean checkAdditionalContent) at Newtonsoft.Json.JsonSerializer.DeserializeInternal(JsonReader reader, Type objectType) at Newtonsoft.Json.JsonSerializer.Deserialize(JsonReader reader, Type objectType) at Newtonsoft.Json.JsonConvert.DeserializeObject(String value, Type type, JsonSerializerSettings settings) at Newtonsoft.Json.JsonConvert.DeserializeObject[T](String value, JsonSerializerSettings settings) at OF_DL.Helpers.APIHelper.GetUserInfo(String endpoint)

[melithine]

Can you screenshot the directory?

[em997nz]

[melithine]

Try extracting the rules.json file from the zip again? It's before the normal "logged in as xyz" message but after validating config.json and auth.json, which leads me to think it's a problem with that file.

[melithine]

If that doesn't work, maybe one of the other folks will have a better idea. I wish c# stack traces showed line numbers :(

[melithine]

Were you able to get this solved?

[em997nz]

Sort of - clicking on the exe file doesn't work however I can operate through Powershell. This suggests a firewall issue.

[melithine]

Strange, but not outside the realm of possibility.

Can you post your config.json and rules.json?

[em997nz]

config.json

{ "DownloadAvatarHeaderPhoto": true, "DownloadPaidPosts": true, "DownloadPosts": true, "DownloadArchived": true, "DownloadStreams": true, "DownloadStories": true, "DownloadHighlights": true, "DownloadMessages": true, "DownloadPaidMessages": true, "DownloadImages": true, "DownloadVideos": true, "DownloadAudios": true, "IncludeExpiredSubscriptions": false, "IncludeRestrictedSubscriptions": false, "SkipAds": false, "DownloadPath": "", "PaidPostFileNameFormat": "", "PostFileNameFormat": "", "PaidMessageFileNameFormat": "", "MessageFileNameFormat": "", "RenameExistingFilesWhenCustomFormatIsSelected": false, "Timeout": null, "FolderPerPaidPost": false, "FolderPerPost": false, "FolderPerPaidMessage": false, "FolderPerMessage": false, "LimitDownloadRate": false, "DownloadLimitInMbPerSec": 4, "DownloadOnlySpecificDates": true, "DownloadDateSelection": "after", "CustomDate": null, "ShowScrapeSize": false, "DownloadPostsIncrementally": true, "NonInteractiveMode": false, "NonInteractiveModeListName": "", "NonInteractiveModePurchasedTab": false, "FFmpegPath": "...Downloads/Github/OF.DL.V1.7.60/ffmpeg.exe", "CreatorConfigs": {} }

[em997nz]

rules.json

{ "app-token": "33d57ade8c02dbc5a333db99ff9ae26a", "static_param": "RPnq8UadKceN7JNbeh2ApmUxM0A2nU9y", "prefix": "24650", "suffix": "666078a0", "checksum_constant": 13, "checksum_indexes": [ 4, 5, 7, 9, 9, 11, 13, 17, 18, 19, 23, 23, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 27, 28, 28, 28, 28, 28, 29, 30, 32, 32, 33, 33, 34, 34, 38 ] }