fatal error

Unity Engine
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hello

i just installed unity and when i launch it i get this error popup :
Fatal error!
type == kMetaAssetType pathName.find(“library/metadata”) != 0

please note that i never launched it before, it crashes since the very 1st launch, so i never got a chance to open and try the default project…

thanks for your help
Vince

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well to be more precise, i installed unity 3.5 then i saw a demo of unity 4.0 so i uninstalled 3.5 then installed 4.0 then it asked me a key i didn’t have so i removed 4.0 ans installed again 3.5…
then i cannot open it

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well i fixed it
i searched in regedit and found references as “C:\Users\Public\Documents\Unity Projects\4-0_AngryBots” for the latest project so i modified it to “C:\Users\Public\Documents\Unity Projects\3-5_AngryBots” and that’s ok now…

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I found a small workaround not sure how effective it is as of yet, i’m still importing but deleting the contents of meta-data seem to un-corrupt the project.

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go to the registry

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Care to expand on those directions?

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i have encountered similar problems, you coulder delete that file before you create.

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For those who are confused about how to fix the regedit values : open up regedit by typing it into start (not sure of this works in windows 8 )
the press control-F and paste the following C:\Users\Public\Documents\Unity Projects\4-0_AngryBots
then find the files with that extension and right click on them and click modify
then replace the numbers 4-0 with 3-5
do this for all three then open up unity and enjoy :stuck_out_tongue:

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thanks this fix the error