Title: JSON.parse error when trying to sync POT
Last modified: August 30, 2016

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# JSON.parse error when trying to sync POT

 *  Resolved [SVFlightManual](https://wordpress.org/support/users/svflightmanual/)
 * (@svflightmanual)
 * [10 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/jsonparse-error-when-trying-to-sync-pot/)
 * Hi. Thanks for this great plugin. It really simplifies translation work for me.
 * The plugin was working fine for me on my child theme (loco translate gives ok
   to each of the file checks). However, today I can’t sync my POT file with the
   source files. I have been troubleshooting the issue: no php errors reported by
   my webserver, no response to the http request. The latest info I got was:
 * Error: SyntaxError: JSON.parse: unexpected character at line 1 column 1 of the
   JSON data
 * From WP_DEBUG
 * Could you please help me fix the problem?
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/loco-translate/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/loco-translate/)

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 *  Plugin Author [Tim W](https://wordpress.org/support/users/timwhitlock/)
 * (@timwhitlock)
 * [10 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/jsonparse-error-when-trying-to-sync-pot/#post-6233408)
 * Are you sure there is no response? If so, this is likely to be a fatal PHP error.
   With no error reporting enabled you won’t get any output. Check your log files
   for errors.
 * Any plugin could be causing an error during the Ajax request, so try disabling
   them one by one and see if it starts working.
 * See also this FAQ: [https://wordpress.org/support/topic/faq-what-is-causing-unexpected-tokencharacter-syntax-error](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/faq-what-is-causing-unexpected-tokencharacter-syntax-error)
 *  Thread Starter [SVFlightManual](https://wordpress.org/support/users/svflightmanual/)
 * (@svflightmanual)
 * [10 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/jsonparse-error-when-trying-to-sync-pot/#post-6233461)
 * Hi Tim.
    Thanks for your reply.
 * I found that some of my template files had special characters messing up the 
   synching process.
 * These characters were: ’, “ and ” (note these are not the same as ‘ and “) which
   were copied and pasted from some other files. After replacing them the plugin
   worked again.
 * So I guess this was a more general problem. Thanks for your help and this great
   plugin. Your FAQs also helped me a lot.

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 * Last reply from: [SVFlightManual](https://wordpress.org/support/users/svflightmanual/)
 * Last activity: [10 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/jsonparse-error-when-trying-to-sync-pot/#post-6233461)
 * Status: resolved