Error parsing file \Users\Admin\.particle\profile.json: SyntaxError: Unexpected token

Troubleshooting
1

Hi,

I’m having problems getting Particle CLI working on a Windows 10 machine.

I’ve tried installing/uninstalling everything several times but always get this error.

C:\Users\Admin>particle
 !   Error in particle-cli:
 !   Error parsing file \Users\Admin\.particle\profile.json: SyntaxError: Unexpected token
 !   See C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\particle\error.log for more info.

Here’s the full error from the log file.

2018/04/17 07:39:31 Error: Error parsing file \Users\Admin\.particle\profile.json: SyntaxError: Unexpected token 
    at Object.settings.readProfileData (C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\particle\node_modules\particle-cli\settings.js:197:10)
    at Object.settings.whichProfile (C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\particle\node_modules\particle-cli\settings.js:173:11)
    at CLI.run (C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\particle\node_modules\particle-cli\dist\app\cli.js:208:12)
    at Object.<anonymous> (C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\particle\node_modules\particle-cli\bin\particle.js:6:11)
    at Module._compile (module.js:397:26)
    at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:404:10)
    at Module.load (module.js:343:32)
    at Function.Module._load (module.js:300:12)
    at Module.require (module.js:353:17)
    at require (internal/module.js:12:17)

Anybody got any ideas?

Cheers,
Paul

2

Are you trying the manual install, or the windows installer? I’d recommend the latter if you haven’t tried that yet.

3

It seems that the profile.json file was corrupt. I deleted it and tried again and it worked.

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