UnicodeDecodeError: 'charmap' codec can't decode byte

[StragaSevera]

The problem:

Whenever I launch Mod Organizer, I receive the following error message:

After I click "OK", the app is launched normally.

To Reproduce:

Steps to reproduce the behavior:

1. Start Mod Organizer 2.
2. Observe.

Environment:

• Mod Organizer Version that exhibits the issue: 2.5.2
• Desktop OS/version used to run Mod Organizer: Windows 10, build 19045.5371

Link to Mod Organizer logs:

Right click on the log window at the bottom of MO2, set log level to debug, restart Mo2 and reproduce the problem.
To access the log files you can press the Open folder icon over the modlist and select "Open MO2 Logs folder".

USVFS:

https://gist.github.com/StragaSevera/9305fcb38f3207852b389be8c8f7a997

MO Interface:

https://gist.github.com/StragaSevera/efd5d1d4ba93bea4f6c2cc0f20fac9f5

[AnyOldName3]

Looks like we open the INI file that lists installed EA games without specifying the encoding, so Python defaults to the system's current eight-bit code page, and it seems that EA's app doesn't use that encoding for the file.

Can you please upload your %LocalAppData%\Electronic Arts\EA Desktop\user_*.ini? I don't know what the * will expand to on your machine.

[StragaSevera]

No problem, here it is: user_15168781886942948422.txt
(For some reason Github doesn't want to upload the .ini file, so I renamed the extension).

[AnyOldName3]

Well that's certainly not an INI file, or any kind of text file at all.

[StragaSevera]

Yep, I wonder why. I can just delete it, but maybe you can add some check for other people - "if the file is corrupted, ignore it"?