Godot keeps switching between two scenes being corrupted?

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Godot Version

4.2.2

Question

This is driving me to tears. I made a major flaw in my game design early on, and I just spent a week rebuilding the game from scratch essentially to fix it. I finally got it done, but now every time I open Godot, there’s a new scene it says that’s corrupted! It seems to have fallen into a cycle. Now when I first open it, it will say the main menu scene is corrupted. If I restart Godot, then it says my lobby scene is corrupted. Another restart goes back to the main menu being corrupted and back and forth.

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I have tried deleting the godot folder, removing godot completely from my computer and restarting, pulling a previous version from github and working on that, no matter what happens I can’t get away from this error!

Please someone tell me how to escape from this hell. At this rate the only thing I can think of is scrapping it and moving on to another engine. Or just giving up on game dev as a whole.

EDIT:
For some extra info, the scenes work fine in the part of the cycle where they aren’t the ones that say they are corrupted. A bunch of sprites get their PNGs unassigned though. If I rename both of the scenes before launching the project, the scenes load just fine as well. This is so baffling!

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I had a very similar error with my game. What was causing the issue for me was using the preload() function. After I switched to using load() I didn’t get the errors anymore.
I did have to go back to project selection and reload the project a few times to fix the corrupted scenes.
Hope this helps.

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It’s also possible to open the .tscn files in a text editor and take a look at the indicated lines. The format is decently human readable - there’s some documentation here.

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I cannot believe that something so incredibly simple (and in my opinion also stupid) was the cause.

You have saved me several hours of grief, thank you!

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Yeah. I think it’s a known issue that should be fixed in the next release, but still frustrating.

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I had the same issue with one of my several projects, thank you for the information.

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