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Does anyone know what the error codes mean?

The Variable name already exists.
Error Code: 800a170f

Building...
Contents file...
Index file...
Help target...
** Fatal error occurred: The Variable name already exists.
Error Code: 800a170f
Saving changes...
Failed

What name where?
This is completely new project and it made it right through the entire build process without an issue until the last bit of saving the file. It has it's own folder so it should not be an issue. I did copy the settings from another project, but I can't find a name that should be causing this issue. Any help would be great, I am sure it's a simple checkbox somewhere.

Hi Adsy,

the error code comes from Windows and it does not help. Best is to take a look into your variables!
If you have more than one Rich Content variable files it may help to copy all their contents into an Excell sheet, and sort them by first column.

Kind regards,
Sabine Kamprowski