Error message : No JSON object could be decoded: line 1 column 0 (char 0)

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I have a question regarding BleachBit (Ver. 0.9.5) for windows 7.
I see two error message (in red color) whenever I run the BleachBit (0.9.5) for windows 7.
Would you tell me what that means and how to fix this problem?
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No JSON object could be decoded: line 1 column 0 (char 0)
No JSON object could be decoded: line 1 column 0 (char 0)
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Thank you!
/Nobu/

Google Chrome and Chromium store some data in JSON format which BleachBit cleaners. It seems one of these files is corrupt or empty.

The JSON files for Google Chrome are

$localappdata\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default\Preferences
$localappdata\Google\Chrome\User Data\Local State

If the file is empty, let me know. If not, please email me a copy. My email address is on the bottom of every page of this web site as a white link with my name. Also let me know your version of Google Chrome or Chromium.

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Andrew, lead developer

Dear Andrew,

Thank you for your reply.

>The JSON files for Google Chrome are

$localappdata\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default\Preferences
$localappdata\Google\Chrome\User Data\Local State

I have never used Google Chrome nor Chromium so that I don't have ...\Google\Chrome\... directories.

>If the file is empty, let me know.
Yes, it is emply and there is no such directories.

To avoid the error messages, shouldn't I check "Google Chrome" for clean up files?

Thank you!
/Nobu/

If the Google Chrome and Chromium configuration files don't exist, then this doesn't explain what causes the error. Checking "Google Chrome" won't help because the files don't exist, and the cleaner I was thinking of doesn't delete this file.

Would you please try to narrow it down to a checkbox or a file? One way is to uncheck all the options and try them one at a time. Another way is to right click on each checkbox and choose clean. A third way may be to view the files in the log surrounding the error message.

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Andrew, lead developer

Thank you for your comments.

Yes, I unchecked "Google Chrome > Form history" and "Google Chrome > Search engines", then there was not any error message.
I checked all Chromium, but I did not see any error message so that "Chromium" is fine.

But, I see different error messages this time,

when I checked "Google Chrome > Form history"
no such table: autofill: C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default\Web Data
(in red)

when I checked "Google Chrome > Search engines"
no such table: meta
(in red)

I don't see the error message "No JSON object could be decoded: line 1 column 0 (char 0)".
I don't know why.
Anyway, thank you so much!
/Nobu/