'General' settings not available after upgrade (blocks startup)

[JFoederer]

I just upgraded to RIDE 2.2.2.dev5 (Windows Python 3.13), which showed some faulty behaviour.

The upgrade was executed from the upgrade pop-up dialog on startup. The upgrade executed and RIDE started, but in this instance other pop-up windows did not seem to work. I did not get the pop-up asking to run all tests when none are sellected, and I could also not open the about window.

After closing RIDE it couldn't be started again:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Users\...\Python313\Lib\site-packages\robotide\application\application.py", line 151, in OnInit
    font_size = self.settings['General'].get('font size', 12)
                ~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "C:\Users\...\Python313\Lib\site-packages\robotide\preferences\settings.py", line 257, in __getitem__
    value = self.config_obj[name]
            ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^
  File "C:\Users\...\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python313\Lib\site-packages\robotide\preferences\configobj\src\configobj\__init__.py", line 549, in __getitem__
    val = dict.__getitem__(self, key)
KeyError: 'General'
OnInit returned false, exiting...

[HelioGuilherme66]

@JFoederer To start RIDE, you should delete the file settings.cfg, then try to start RIDE. You should see if important settings are saved in some backup . After starting and closing RIDE, try to recover some settings from old settings_####.cfg or backup