Glyphs 3 can't open a document from version 2

Glyphs
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Hello,

I installed the trial version of Glyphs 3, as I am working with version 2 and considered upgrading at the end of the evaluation period. However when trying to open a project made in version 2, Glyphs 3 says that the document cannot be opened, giving the error message “No semicolon at the end of the string at line: 32802”.

Does anyone know how I can solve this problem?

Thanks.

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Could you send me that .glyphs file?

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You had an invalid metrics key that Glyphs 2 was being able to cope with. Open the files in a code editor (TestMate, Sublime Text, BBEdit …) and goto the line mentioned in the error message. Then look a few lines before and you’ll see a metrics key like this: = "o""; remove the duplicate closing quote and it will work again.

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Thank you! I will try it.

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This is also happening to me. Can’t open a Glyphs 2 document on Glyphs 3. Could you help me?

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Please send me the file.

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Just sent it.

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You should get an error message: “No semicolon at the end of the string at line: 176601”. You can open the file in a text editor and go to that line. There you see that there are some corrupted nodes. Glyphs 2 seems to be fine with it, Glyphs 3 trips over them (I see if I can prevent). But you can edit the file by deleting those nodes or giving them a valid node type like “LINE” and then check that outline.

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I’m with it opened in TextMate. This is part of my window there. What should I delete or change here?

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The lines with n/a

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Ok, I’ll try that! Thank you so much, Georg!

Is it possible to know which glyph is the one with the problem by looking at this code?

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You can search for “glyphname” and search backwards form that location. It is the second layer in the “m”. At least that looks strange after I fixed those nodes.

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And you really need to close some tabs. 170 are too many.

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Ok! Thank you!

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Suddenly I can’t open the font I have many many hours into. It has a lot of symbols and proprietary so I can’t share the file. It won’t open and says “No semicolon at the end of the string at line: 2”

Here are the first three lines of the .glyphs file I’m trying to open (Glyphs 3):

{
“.appVersion” = 3108;
“.formatVersion” = 3;

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Try changing it to the following:

{
.appVersion = "3108";
.formatVersion = 3;
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This happened to me, out of nowhere. I was making kerning groups. I looked at what the dev said above but I cant find the problem. The weird thing is its a Glyphs 3 doc.
This is the text around the line: unicode = 47;
},
{
glyphname = backslash;
kernLeft = "";
kernRight = "";
lastChange = “2023-05-15 12:24:40 +0000”;
layers = (
{
layerId = m01;
shapes = (
{

Line 6148 with lastChange is supposed to be the problem

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Can you send me the .glyphs file?