MySQL Bugs: #12047: cannot load settings from "Document&Settings"

Bug #12047	cannot load settings from "Document&Settings"
Submitted:	20 Jul 2005 8:22	Modified:	21 Sep 2005 10:59
Reporter:	Silvan Mühlemann	Email Updates:
Status:	Closed	Impact on me:	None
Category:	MySQL Query Browser	Severity:	S3 (Non-critical)
Version:	1.1.13	OS:	Windows (Windows)
Assigned to:	Vladimir Kolesnikov	CPU Architecture:	Any

Description:
When starting MySQL-Query-Browser, it reports the error dialogs: 

"XML Error: Error while loading Options File 'c:\documente und einstellungen\peter müller\anwendungsdaten\mysql\mysqlx_common_options.xml' Error Number 1"

"XML Error: Error while loading Options File 'c:\documente und einstellungen\peter müller\anwendungsdaten\mysql\mysqlqb_options.xml' Error Number 1"

and users default settings. Connections cannot be added and saved. 

The problem disappears when the users 'document and settings'-directory path does NOT contain umlauts.

How to repeat:
start MySQL Query Browser with a WindowsXP user having umlauts in their 'document and settings'-directory path.

Tested on win xp sp2. Actually I created user with russian name  (cp1251) and started QB, changed some options, closed QB and started it again. And got the same error message. 

So this error appears if non-latin1 chars are in the name

maybe it could help to add setting of this directory to program setup...

I would say this is a critical bug, as it prohibits use of MySQL Query Browser on XP by anyone with an unlaut in their name, which is a common occurence in many countries. When these XML files cannot be opened, there seems to be even more issues, the screen repaints gets strange, and there are some Access violation errors (these tow seem related). Deleting the XML-files before each time one connect is the only was to solve this issue, but this is clearly not acceptable in the long run.

Got the same error. Name of the user in the path is in russian.
Would like to get rid of it also :)

This error occurs in Query Browser and Administrator, but not in previous versions of these products (I run curently the 1.1.9 and 1.0.21, respectively). I raise this error if I run the last versions.

I have the french version of Win2000, and the setting dir of MySQL is :
C:\Documents and Settings\mylogin\Données d'applications\MySQL

My login doesn't contain accent. So I suppose that the "é" character is the one which cause the error.

Same behaviour with path:

C:\Documents and Settings\hlavac_d\Data aplikací\MySQL\*.xml

(Czech WinXp SP2) QB 1.1.14

Any solution?

Any way around this subject?
I have the same error cuz my name's Søren, the Ø (oe) i think is causing my number 1 error...
Any patches to get around this, or i have to make up another profile to get it running?

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