Title: SyntaxError: JSON.parse: unexpected character
Last modified: August 22, 2016

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# SyntaxError: JSON.parse: unexpected character

 *  [randallxski](https://wordpress.org/support/users/randallxski/)
 * (@randallxski)
 * [11 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/syntaxerror-jsonparse-unexpected-character-3/)
 * Going to the Media File Manager page after activating this plugin displays a 
   JSON error and an entire page of error messages…perhaps a message for each image?
   Here’s the error:
 * SyntaxError: JSON.parse: unexpected character at line 1 column 1 of the JSON 
   data
    Warning: array_key_exists() expects parameter 2 to be array, string given
   in /…/wp-content/plugins/media-file-manager-advanced/media-relocator.php on line
   257 [{“ids”:424,”name”:”2013″,”isdir”:1,”isemptydir”:0,”isthumb”:0,”norename”:
   0,”thumbnail_url”:”http:\/\/…\/wp-content\/plugins\/media-file-manager-advanced\/
   images\/dir.png”},
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 * Last reply from: [randallxski](https://wordpress.org/support/users/randallxski/)
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