sorry about your situation. It looks like your file may have corrupted somehow.
My first guess would be that the component mentioned in the error got corrupted during the saving process, or maybe something else altered it.
Do you maybe remember which components you were using, and is this one crucial for your project? If not, you can manually remove it. If you open your project (.rcproj file) as a text file, you can scroll down to the element ‘‘reconstructions’’. From there you can remove your component by selecting it and deleting it.
Here is an example of how it may look like:
Please, do this on the copy of your project file.
Are you storing your project on a local drive? Did you maybe prematurely close RealityCapture while it was saving the project? Have you deleted some images from the source folder or cleared the CACHE? Where do you have selected the cache folder? How often is cache cleared?
Just to confirm to you both, this issue was definitely due to my automated backup. I use a service to back up my hard drive to cloud, and this was scrambling the project file components, I think. Once I excluded Reality Capture from that back up process (I do it to a local drive now), I haven’t had an issue since.
For info I had the same error code and location error but it was because i had used an apostrophe in the project filename and parent image folder. All is okay again after renaming the references in the .rcproj file and corresponding files & folders etc.
North3D’s fix worked for me. Just because it took me a bit to figure it out, the fixes needed are to rename
The folder with the imagery e.g. “John Smith’s Flight” to “John Smiths Flight”
The .rcproj file name
The .rcproj contents. Open the file with notepad, then find and replace all ' with nothing. This will delete the ’ from it and it will look in the proper places for the imagery. ' is the syntax that’s inserted instead of ’
I have this error. I believe it is because the .rcproj file is no longer with the associated project folder because I have since copied it to another back up drive.
The first step is to place the .rcproj file in the same folder as the project folder, then open it.
Then you just need to reconnect the image files (if they have been moved since you last opened the file).
I got the issue today due to having my RC project store in Google Drive (windows client) to sync between two PC’s.
Google Drive seemed to have “deleted” some important files from the project folder. I was able to restore them from the “recently deleted” section of Google Drive.
But use this as a word of caution: don’t use Google Drive as a working directory for RC!
i had the same problem and this solution worked for me. Go on the installation folder of rc and while pressing shift click on the .exe rc file, click on reset all program files and on make clean install. now it saves and re opens files without issues
