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Technical Discussion » Houdini Failed to save output to file "Traceback

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lyolch
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 July 7, 2018 11:42:35

I made a scene and when trying to render it
she gives me this error
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Error while populating shelf with shelf tool assets.
Traceback (most recent call last):
File “<stdin>”, line 1, in <module>
File “CPROGRA~1/SIDEEF~1/HOUDIN~1.496/houdini/python2.7libs\shelfutils.py”, line 183, in populateShelfFromJSON
_ensure_toolbar_dir_exists()
File “CPROGRA~1/SIDEEF~1/HOUDIN~1.496/houdini/python2.7libs\shelfutils.py”, line 279, in _ensure_toolbar_dir_exists
toolbar_dir = hou.homeHoudiniDirectory() + “/toolbar”
File “CPROGRA~1/SIDEEF~1/HOUDIN~1.496/houdini/python2.7libs\hou.py”, line 61639, in homeHoudiniDirectory
return _hou.homeHoudiniDirectory(*args)
UnicodeDecodeError: ‘utf8’ codec can't decode byte 0xc4 in position 24: invalid continuation byte

Exception in thread Thread-2:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File “C:\PROGRA~1\SIDEEF~1\HOUDIN~1.496\python27\lib\threading.py”, line 808, in __bootstrap_inner
self.run()
File “CPROGRA~1/SIDEEF~1/HOUDIN~1.496/houdini/python2.7libs\hou.py”, line 62137, in __threadRun
self.__run()
File “C:\PROGRA~1\SIDEEF~1\HOUDIN~1.496\python27\lib\threading.py”, line 761, in run
self.__target(*self.__args, **self.__kwargs)
File “CPROGRA~1/SIDEEF~1/HOUDIN~1.496/houdini/python2.7libs\hdefereval.py”, line 141, in <lambda>
thread = threading.Thread(target=lambda: function(*args, **kwargs))
File “CPROGRA~1/SIDEEF~1/HOUDIN~1.496/houdini/python2.7libs\hdefereval.py”, line 161, in thread_code
it.next()
File “CPROGRA~1/SIDEEF~1/HOUDIN~1.496/houdini/python2.7libs\sas\localassets.py”, line 365, in check_for_shelf_tool_assets
asset_info_file = shelfutils._shelf_tool_assets_info_file()
File “CPROGRA~1/SIDEEF~1/HOUDIN~1.496/houdini/python2.7libs\shelfutils.py”, line 283, in _shelf_tool_assets_info_file
return hou.homeHoudiniDirectory() + “/toolbar/shelf_tool_assets.json”
File “CPROGRA~1/SIDEEF~1/HOUDIN~1.496/houdini/python2.7libs\hou.py”, line 61639, in homeHoudiniDirectory
return _hou.homeHoudiniDirectory(*args)
UnicodeDecodeError: ‘utf8’ codec can't decode byte 0xc4 in position 24: invalid continuation byte

Error while checking for updates
Traceback (most recent call last):
File “<stdin>”, line 1, in <module>
File “CPROGRA~1/SIDEEF~1/HOUDIN~1.496/houdini/python2.7libs\sas\localassets.py”, line 84, in wrapper
return decorated_function(*args, **kwargs)
File “CPROGRA~1/SIDEEF~1/HOUDIN~1.496/houdini/python2.7libs\hdefereval.py”, line 193, in wrapper
_run_main_thread_worker_thread_code(it)
File “CPROGRA~1/SIDEEF~1/HOUDIN~1.496/houdini/python2.7libs\hdefereval.py”, line 152, in _run_main_thread_worker_thread_code
it.next()
File “CPROGRA~1/SIDEEF~1/HOUDIN~1.496/houdini/python2.7libs\sas\localassets.py”, line 265, in check_for_asset_updates
installed_assets_info = _read_installed_assets_info()
File “CPROGRA~1/SIDEEF~1/HOUDIN~1.496/houdini/python2.7libs\sas\localassets.py”, line 657, in _read_installed_assets_info
_ensure_asset_store_dir_exists()
File “CPROGRA~1/SIDEEF~1/HOUDIN~1.496/houdini/python2.7libs\sas\localassets.py”, line 667, in _ensure_asset_store_dir_exists
if not os.path.exists(_installed_assets_info_file()):
File “CPROGRA~1/SIDEEF~1/HOUDIN~1.496/houdini/python2.7libs\sas\localassets.py”, line 731, in _installed_assets_info_file
return asset_store_dir() + “/” + _current_user_dir() + “/installed_assets.json”
File “CPROGRA~1/SIDEEF~1/HOUDIN~1.496/houdini/python2.7libs\sas\localassets.py”, line 735, in asset_store_dir
hou.homeHoudiniDirectory() + “/asset_store”)
File “CPROGRA~1/SIDEEF~1/HOUDIN~1.496/houdini/python2.7libs\hou.py”, line 61639, in homeHoudiniDirectory
return _hou.homeHoudiniDirectory(*args)
UnicodeDecodeError: ‘utf8’ codec can't decode byte 0xc4 in position 24: invalid continuation byte
//
And when the program starts, this code gets out
when I try to change the Unicode to the United States, it ceases to perceive the icons and gets even more errors
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