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OlgaV
Occasional Contributor
10 years ago
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Unable to create the 'Project' element, because the file ... does not exist error

Hello,  I am running into this error: "Unable to create the 'Project' element, because the file ... does not exist" when opening a project. The files requested do exist in the file folder that I spe...
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    OlgaV
    10 years ago

    Thank you Djadhav for your suggestion and screenshots,

     

    I have fixed this issue the following way:

     

    Pushed the latest version of my TC project to GitHub, then cloned that repository into a different folder on my PC and opened the pjs file from there. Did the same thing for TestExecute. Works now.

     

     

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NisHera
Valued Contributor
10 years ago

Just open Test Complete without loading any project

Go to your folder in windows explore and project file i.e. ProjectName.mds file double click

what will happen?

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OlgaV
Occasional Contributor
10 years ago

Thank you, NisHera.

The same error message pops up..

 

To be able to work on the project, I had to copy all the projects and paste them into the folder one level up. It works for me for now, but it can not be a solution, because I am never sure if it saves my progress into all the right files.