Solved XML import problem #97279

https://thebrain.zendesk.com/agent/tickets/97279

Hello Jim!

Thanks for your patience as we worked on this issue,

We’ve reviewed the case and confirmed that the import error isn’t caused by TheBrain. FreeMind sometimes writes characters that aren’t valid in the standard XML 1.0 format. In your file, the specific issue came from bytes 0x93 and 0x94 — these are “smart quotes” encoded in Windows-1252 rather than UTF-8.

I’ve attached a repaired copy of your file that should now import correctly into TheBrain. For any other .mm files that show a similar message, you can open them in a plain-text editor and replace curly quotes (“ ”) with straight quotes (" ") before importing.

Let me know if the fixed file works on your side.

Best regards,

John