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ASCII codec can’t decode byte 0x97 in position 10: ordinal not in range

While cloning a configuration

  • TankError: Could not create file system structure: ascii! codec can’t decode byte 0x97 in position 10: ordinal not in range(128)

While setting up a project configuration using another project

  • ” ‘ascii’ codec can’t decode byte 0x97 in position 10: ordinal not in range(128)”

How to fix:

Typically we see this error when there is a Unicode/special character somewhere in the “config” folder. We recomment taking a look to see if you can spot the special character.

Example of what’s causing this error:

In this case, the error stemmed from Windows adding a postfix – at end of file name. After removing all of those files, it started to work.

See the full thread in the community.

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