Why am I getting an "Exception during load. (Xmlable) End of Central Directory record could not be found. (InvalidData) error message when opening my project on MeasureSquare Stone?

Why am I getting an "Exception during load. (Xmlable) End of Central Directory record could not be found. (InvalidData) error message when opening my project on MeasureSquare Stone?

In this article, we will show you how to fix corrupted image file exception in MeasureSquare Stone step by step.


This article applies to MeasureSquare Stone version

Step 1: Download 7-Zip from https://www.7-zip.org/download.html.

Step 2: : Right click on Measure Square Stone project (.stz), and select "7-Zip" > Pick Open archive


Step 3: Click Test button, and see which plan image got corrupted. If you getting the "CRC failed" error message please follow the steps below.
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If you're getting the "Data Error" message please click on this article How to fix corrupted image/project file exception in MeasureSquare Stone?




Step 4: Right click on your desktop > select Folder to a folder on your desktop > Name your folder to any names you want 



Step 5: Drag the _serialized_content.xml file over to your desktop 



Step 6: Now select the new folder and the  _serialized_content.xml file > Right click on one of them > 7-zip > Add to "Desktop.zip" 



Step 7: Right click on the new .Zip file > Rename the file extension from .zip to .stz > After that you can now open your file

  
Notes
After you got your file to open, you would have to reimport your plan images again because they got corrupted.