Problems in opening an experiment with OpenSesame 2.9.7

Emily

To modify an old experiment I need to use the version 2.9.7 because the experiment doesn't work with the new versions. I installed version 2.9.7 on my mac but it doesn't open the experiment either (I can open the experiment with the computers which already had the old version of OpenSesame).
I am receiving this kind of message:
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Exception:
Failed to parse line "����h�B�t0q��d��8'�q=����1�T.���+
line: 172
exception message: No closing quotation
exception type: ValueError

Traceback (also in debug window):
File "/Applications/OpenSesame.app/Contents/Resources/lib/python2.7/libopensesame/item.py", line 1049, in split
File "shlex.pyc", line 279, in split
File "shlex.pyc", line 269, in next
File "shlex.pyc", line 96, in get_token
File "shlex.pyc", line 172, in read_token
ValueError: No closing quotation

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Does anybody happen to have an idea?
Thanks!

eduard

Hi Emily,

You could try to open the .opensesame file in a regular text editor and see whether there is really a quotation mark missing. If not, then there is probably an item in the experiment that causes the problem. In this case, you can try to copy the code of each of the items from the text editor to opensesame (open general script tab). Ideally, you would work your way down the hierarchy, so starting with the most outer sequence.

You probably have your reasons, but generally, I would not run the experiment with such an outdated version of opensesame, but would rather try to adapt it to the newest version. Just fyi,

Good luck,

Eduard