I’m not able to open this place to edit it at all, and I’m presented with the following error:
This happens when trying to open through the web view, a downloaded copy and Studio view, leading me to believe this file I hadn’t touched in years got corrupted somehow. It hasn’t been edited since April 12th, 2012 at 06:13 PM EST.
Simply attempting to open this place at all gives me this error.
Since this behavior is observed with a downloaded copy of the place, it would be helpful if you could please PM me a copy of the file so I can investigate this issue further.
I’m getting this error: ---------------------------
Roblox Studio
Could not open the place “5287344494” with exception: “Unable to open the place. Please restart your application and try again. If you continue to encounter this error, please contact customer service.”.
OK
Since a roblox staff replied with:
I realized I had a downloaded copy and it decided to open the copy.
I am experiencing the same error you are, however this is not with a downloaded place. I believe this seems to be any place with a teamcreate enabled, as I have tested various with and without and I was able to join only those without it enabled. Although @gattka504 is correct.
We are aware of the particular error in the title occurring for games created and not touched since 2012 and earlier. Any other issues related to opening games that does not fit this criteria are not related and should be created as a separate bug report.
Is it at all related to old terrain? In the thumbnail this has the old “blocky” terrain. Although if I remember correctly it is supposed to auto convert to new terrain?
Same error as in the original post in this thread, just thought I’d specify.
I have been experiencing this same error for several years when trying to open some old untouched place files from 2012 and early 2013. I have tried for years to open it but always receive the same error. I hope this can be fixed soon, I had some great designs I created in that old place and I want access to them again.
Dirty fix that seems to work for me, IF you can live WITHOUT the ‘terrain’. £-D
I have only found this problem with old Roblox files (luckily save in a text format) which can be open using a bug standard text editor such as Notepad++.
So give this a try:-
First open the .rbxl (now .rbxlx) file in your favourite editor, just make sure it can handle the file size!
Do a search for
<Item class="Terrain" referent=
Rename the work ‘Terrain’ to ‘Terrain_DummyName’ as Roblox seem to just ignore the entries it does not unrecognised
Save the file with a NEW name (just in case).
And try opening…
Thank you so much my friend, it worked. I did not think I’d be able to access this place file any time soon, but miraculously you provided the solution.