Error: Parse error at line 1, column 1: error occurred while parsing element in QGIS 3 and 2.18

[Mangoesmapping-GeorgeCorea]

When I try to run the plugin, I can set the layers, file names etc and even with a simple project with just a few small vector layers I get this error [Error: Parse error at line 1, column 1: error occurred while parsing element]

What can I do?

[Kapanther]

I have narrowed it down to be the QGZ format in V>3.0. If you save your QGIS project as a "QGS" format instead it works fine.

[Mangoesmapping-GeorgeCorea]

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[Fabien98]

Hello, same problem here:

INFO    SHP export selected
CRITICAL    Parse error at line 1, column 1:
             error occurred while parsing element
             Traceback (most recent call last):
              File "C:/Users/Fab/AppData/Roaming/QGIS/QGIS3\profiles\default/python/plugins\qconsolidate3\consolidatethread.py", line 71, in run
              self.consolidate()
              File "C:/Users/Fab/AppData/Roaming/QGIS/QGIS3\profiles\default/python/plugins\qconsolidate3\consolidatethread.py", line 96, in consolidate
              doc = self.loadProject()
              File "C:/Users/Fab/AppData/Roaming/QGIS/QGIS3\profiles\default/python/plugins\qconsolidate3\consolidatethread.py", line 174, in loadProject
              raise SyntaxError(msg)
              File "", line None
             SyntaxError: Parse error at line 1, column 1:
             error occurred while parsing element

Thanks for the workaround @Kapanther .
It does not work properly though...

[ghtmtt]

The error is still here on QGIS 3.3 on a Linux Debian Sid machine. Any news?

[danzig666]

Please just save as .QGS for the time being. Getting this fixed is not trivial.

[alpterlab]

#https://github.com/alexbruy/qconsolidate/issues/12

[alpterlab]

Thanks....

Please just save as .QGS for the time being. Getting this fixed is not trivial.

Thanks.... that worked... you just need to make sure the file you save is a copy of it and the previous is closed 👍

[mjb235]

Hello
I am having the same problem. I saved the file as .qgs, closed it and opened it but the same error occurs.

[grunsepin]

Hello
I am having the same problem (QGis 3.12)

CRITICAL Parse error at line 1, column 1:
error occurred while parsing element
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:/Users/xxx/AppData/Roaming/QGIS/QGIS3\profiles\default/python/plugins\qconsolidate3\consolidatethread.py", line 71, in run
self.consolidate()
File "C:/Users/xxx/AppData/Roaming/QGIS/QGIS3\profiles\default/python/plugins\qconsolidate3\consolidatethread.py", line 96, in consolidate
doc = self.loadProject()
File "C:/Users/xxx/AppData/Roaming/QGIS/QGIS3\profiles\default/python/plugins\qconsolidate3\consolidatethread.py", line 174, in loadProject
raise SyntaxError(msg)
File "", line None
SyntaxError: Parse error at line 1, column 1:
error occurred while parsing element

[ghost]

problems with kdenlive on ubuntu
kdenlive error occurred while parsing element

I can't open video files

the message above appears

[eanema]

I have forked this repo and fixed this issue by extracting the .qgz file into the target directory. (I have also fixed a few other issues that are mentioned in the issues section)

There are not many code changes, but they can be see here: master...eanema:qconsolidate3:master

The forked repo is here: https://github.com/eanema/qconsolidate3

[kikislater]

@eanema Why not making a PR to this repo ?

[eanema]

@kikislater that's a good question, I'll have a look at merging in the latest version and see if my changes still make sense

[danzig666]

@kikislater that's a good question, I'll have a look at merging in the latest version and see if my changes still make sense

I already merged it ;)

[eanema]

Well awesome. It looks like I already did make a merge request. Thanks for merging it. Any idea how long it takes QGIS's repo to pick up the changes? I assume plugins.qgis.org is triggered by the version number change in the metadata.txt file...

[danzig666]

Nah, the QGIS repo must be updated manually. I'll do it soon™