nw.js profile problem solution

[bikke the pirate]

i had this problem with this game and found the solution on the discussion on another game and thought i put it here in case anyone else have the same error with this game

On starting the game, I get a popup.

"nwjs

Your profile can not be used because it is from a newer version of NW.js.

Some features may be unavailable. Please specify a different profile directory or use a newer version of NW.js."

The game still seems to run fine, though I've never seen this error occur with other RPGMaker titles.


Yes this error is not related to the game actually at all, so it won't impact the game. The issue runs far deeper than this game actually.

This is due to your NW JS version having been changed at one point and then changed again after that. This is actually on your system and reinstalling/deleting the game won't fix it as the problem persists in your appdata, especially if you play multiple RPG Maker games by multiple people it may cause this if people play around with NW JS files. That said I'll fix this in the next patch, because this sort of a problem shouldn't even rise to begin with.


For now, to fix this error click your file explorer and type in

%LOCALAPPDATA%/ (You can also go to users/*your user name*/Appdata/Local to achieve same effect)

Then go into KADOKAWA\RPGMV\User Data\Default

and delete both Web Data and Web Data-journal. After this the NW JS gets updated when the game is ran again and the error will dissapear.

[Shanto]

Thanks!! It worked (:

[GoblinTown]

I found this searching for a fix to this problem on Google as I was getting it in a number of games. What I had to do was slightly different, but this got me where I needed to go. On mine, I had several copies of Web Data and Web Data-journal in different folders for different games. I used the search program "Everything" to find all the copies and deleted them all. Once I did that, it fixed the issue for all of the games that were having a problem.

Pardon the necropost, but just wanting to leave this here for any who find this via google when looking for a fix to the problem. Thank you Bikke.

[Kalakuta8008]

Thank you for your guide, my Katakana War Game is working again after playing Meltys Quest.
RPG Maker MV is a fantastic software and some of the RPG games from Dlsite are made by this maker, however, one of the problem of this software is nw.js problem that shown from this game, so well, nw.js needs to be unified(for most MV games...).

[GoblinTown]

Glad it worked out and was helpful, thank you!

[Cyber Pixel Games]

Thanks!! It´s Cool: steamhappy:

[shadoshryke]

Since this still occurs with a number of these RPGM games:
You can make it easier on yourself it you make a .bat file (Windows), place it in a handy area (desktop?) and just run it whenever you see the error:

Use notepad or Notepad ++ (or your flavor of favorite text editor) to create a new file. Paste the text below into the file.
Change the {username} to the appropriate username for your login/account for the OS.
Save the new file as "NWjs Error Fix.bat" or whatever makes you happy. Then, to run, just click/doubleclick (depending on your setup preference).


echo Script to fix NW.js error
del "C:\Users\{username}\AppData\Local\KADOKAWA\RPGMV\User Data\Default\Web Data-journal.*" /s /f /q
del "C:\Users\(username}\AppData\Local\KADOKAWA\RPGMV\User Data\Default\Web Data.*" /s /f /q
echo Done!

[LordKutter]

also had this problem and this didnt work... i dont even have said web data files...

EDIT: -found a fix at least for me

The steps for Windows 10 users (Highly suggest shutting RPG MV off before doing this stuff and back up projects, etc.):
Go to your app data folder in Windows (C:\Users\[Your Username]\AppData\Local). If you can't find it, make sure you can see hidden folders.
Delete the folder "nwjs".
Go inside the folder 'User Data". Then go inside the folder "Default". Look for the files "Web Data" and "Web Data-journal". Delete these two files.
Launch MV and play test.

[Faye Strawberry]

Originally posted by LordKutter:

also had this problem and this didnt work... i dont even have said web data files...

EDIT: -found a fix at least for me

The steps for Windows 10 users (Highly suggest shutting RPG MV off before doing this stuff and back up projects, etc.):
Go to your app data folder in Windows (C:\Users\[Your Username]\AppData\Local). If you can't find it, make sure you can see hidden folders.
Delete the folder "nwjs".
Go inside the folder 'User Data". Then go inside the folder "Default". Look for the files "Web Data" and "Web Data-journal". Delete these two files.
Launch MV and play test.

Thank you :)

[LordKutter]

Originally posted by Faye Strawberry:

Thank you :)

sure thing friend i was also having problems with finding answers

[( . )( . )]

"The games still seems to run fine, [...]"
The end screen to any fight takes very long just to count up the number of gained exp, but often, it doesn't even come to that point, it's just stuck with the character pictures on display. Also, maybe it's a memory issue, but I crashed when entering the city.

[Sebastianzika]

thanks!

[TaiCatFish]

Thank you

[˚ʚ♡ɞ˚]

how do I fix this on macOS?

[bikke the pirate]

There probably is a similar file layout in the Application Support folder for that app in macOS
So look for either ~/Library/Application Support/<name>/Default
Or ~/Library/Application Support/<name>

[DrunkDriver10]

Originally posted by LordKutter:

also had this problem and this didnt work... i dont even have said web data files...

EDIT: -found a fix at least for me

The steps for Windows 10 users (Highly suggest shutting RPG MV off before doing this stuff and back up projects, etc.):
Go to your app data folder in Windows (C:\Users\[Your Username]\AppData\Local). If you can't find it, make sure you can see hidden folders.
Delete the folder "nwjs".
Go inside the folder 'User Data". Then go inside the folder "Default". Look for the files "Web Data" and "Web Data-journal". Delete these two files.
Launch MV and play test.

Legend! Even though this was a pretty innocuous bug, I appreciate the fix. Getting a popup error every time I booted up Fear & Hunger was annoying, but these steps solved it.