# Unable to open a scene

**URL:** <https://discourse.slicer.org/t/unable-to-open-a-scene/37166>\
**Category:** Support\
**Created:** [July 3, 2024, 8:06am UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/unable-to-open-a-scene/37166 "2024-07-03T08:06:44Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![Noa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/919ad9/32.png) [@Noa](https://discourse.slicer.org/u/Noa)\
**Post date:** [July 3, 2024, 8:06am UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/unable-to-open-a-scene/37166/1 "2024-07-03T08:06:44Z")

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Hello, I’ve been using slicer to create a .mrb scene but when I try to open it I get this message :

- Error: Loading C:/Users/Eleve/Desktop/Scene010724.mrb - ERROR: In vtkXMLParser.cxx, line 380  
vtkMRMLParser (000001C6ABFA85D0): Error parsing XML in stream at line 234, column 1090, byte index 71922: not well-formed (invalid token)
- Error: Loading C:/Users/Eleve/Desktop/Scene010724.mrb - Syntax error in scene file.

I can open other Slicer documents but not this one, and this happens every time I save and open a new Slicer scene. Can somewone please help me?  
Thank you in advance.

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**Author:** ![cpinter](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discourse.slicer.org/cpinter/32/7995_2.png) [@cpinter](https://discourse.slicer.org/u/cpinter)\
**Post date:** [July 3, 2024, 11:51am UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/unable-to-open-a-scene/37166/2 "2024-07-03T11:51:55Z")

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What Slicer version do you use? Did you use the same Slicer version for saving the scene as what you use opening it? If not what are these versions?

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**Author:** ![Noa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/919ad9/32.png) [@Noa](https://discourse.slicer.org/u/Noa)\
**Post date:** [July 3, 2024, 12:02pm UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/unable-to-open-a-scene/37166/3 "2024-07-03T12:02:52Z")

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hi,  
I use slicer 5.6.1 to build the scene and to reopen it. I think the problem is that I named one of my segmentation with “&”. I corrected it with notepadd++ but now I can’t manage to open back the txt file in slicer…

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**Author:** ![cpinter](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discourse.slicer.org/cpinter/32/7995_2.png) [@cpinter](https://discourse.slicer.org/u/cpinter)\
**Post date:** [July 5, 2024, 11:05am UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/unable-to-open-a-scene/37166/4 "2024-07-05T11:05:19Z")

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It is possible that the character is the culprit. All MRB files are essentially the data files and their mrml descriptor file zipped together. Try to open it as a zip, extract it in a directory and open the .mrml file. If it has the special character too and it doesn’t open try to sanitize the file name.