What to do if the filepicker for "SOUND" won't appear in the ME

[Atari800XL]

Ahoi,

today I had a strange behavior in the ME, I could solve it and I'd like so share this problem and the solution with others!

What did I do?
I tried to implement a sound in the ME ( "repetetive action" , "Flag equals ("BEEP",1), "sound to all").

Normally then appears a filepicker-dialogue where you can pick a .ogg oder .wav file after pressing on "open". But in my case nothing happend and I found this failure in the DCS.log:

2024-05-04 16:28:38.462 ALERT   LUACOMMON (Main): Error: GUI Error: [string "./MissionEditor/modules/SoundPlayer.lua"]:73: attempt to index field 'soundInfo' (a nil value) GUI debug.traceback: stack traceback:     [C]: ?     [string "./MissionEditor/modules/SoundPlayer.lua"]:73: in function 'setPathSound'     [string "./MissionEditor/modules/FileDialog.lua"]:891: in function 'updateSoundPlayer'     [string "./MissionEditor/modules/FileDialog.lua"]:466: in function 'onSelectFile_'     [string "./MissionEditor/modules/FileDialog.lua"]:758: in function 'setInitPath_'     [string "./MissionEditor/modules/FileDialog.lua"]:921: in function <[string "./MissionEditor/modules/FileDialog.lua"]:904>     (tail call): ?     [string "./MissionEditor/modules/me_predicates.lua"]:2529: in function <[string "./MissionEditor/modules/me_predicates.lua"]:2525>     (tail call): ?     [string "./MissionEditor/modules/me_predicates.lua"]:1932: in function 'onChange'     [string "./dxgui/bind/Button.lua"]:22: in function 'callback'     [string "./dxgui/bind/Widget.lua"]:368: in function <[string "./dxgui/bind/Widget.lua"]:363>

A typical LUA-Stacktrace but when I digged a bit deeper I found this entry in the DCS.log:

2024-05-04 17:35:20.821 ERROR   ED_SOUND (Main): sf_open_virtual(C:\Users\Andreas\Saved Games\DCS.openbeta\Missions\DCS-TRAINING\07-Random-Stationkeeping-Trainer\beep_good.wav) failed: File contains data in an unknown format.

File contains data in an unknown format? 

Ok, here is the problem: the pointer of the last .wav I picked showed on a not correct .wav-file, don't ask me how I made this but this file is damaged.
So I deleted the beep_good.wav where the last picked-file pointer pointed at. 

After the deletion my file-picker dialogue was back in business and no more errors in the DCS.lua occured.

This should help others with the same problem if the file-picker for sound files won't appear.

best regards, stay healthy and fly safe!

Edited May 4, 2024 by Atari800XL