CFPropertyListCreateFromXMLData(): plist parse failed

Hello, I tried the new version of Marvin on a mac osx 10.4.11 (intel) and noticed the following warning with the Marvin applications. It is only a warning. The output was correct. So you may consider that with very low priority.





with molconvert:

Code:

molconvert png -s "CCOC" -o toto.png

returns this warning:

Code:

2008-02-17 16:34:16.299 java[396] CFLog (0): CFPropertyListCreateFromXMLData(): plist parse failed; the data is not proper UTF-8. The file name for this data could be: /Users/jlp/Library/Autosave Information The parser will retry as in 10.2, but the problem should be corrected in the plist.

The same warning appears when starting mview and msketch.

We will check it.

Dear Jean-Luc,


I did not manage to reproduce this error although I have tested it on the same platform: OS X 10.4.11 (Intel).


There were not any message on the console by running molconverter.


After its running, I printed Java version, to check the environment.

Code:

tamas-vertses-computer:/Applications/ChemAxon/MarvinBeans vertset$ ./bin/molconvert png -s "CCOC" -o toto.png tamas-vertses-computer:/Applications/ChemAxon/MarvinBeans vertset$ java -version java version "1.5.0_13" Java(TM) 2 Runtime Environment, Standard Edition (build 1.5.0_13-b05-241) Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (build 1.5.0_13-121, mixed mode, sharing)

To tell the truth, I can hardly believe this issue would be related to Marvin.


The mentioned file in the warning ("/Users/jlp/Library/Autosave Information") does not part of Marvin release. Furthermore, I had not found any similar file on my Mac machine.


If you type the warning message in Google, you will got several hits about it.


This message means that you have a plist which is in an 8-bit encoding other than UTF-8.


The Google hits, especially the following topic on a Mac OS X forum, confirm my suspect that it is a general Mac - Java issue.


http://macosx.com/forums/archive/t-271656.html

yes indeed it seems that it is not related to Marvin.


my java:

Code:

java -version java version "1.5.0_13" Java(TM) 2 Runtime Environment, Standard Edition (build 1.5.0_13-b05-241) Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (build 1.5.0_13-121, mixed mode, sharing)

Since Marvin seems to work ok despite the warning I will not look further.


Thanks for your reply