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    • August 5, 2023 at 9:52 pm
      Sipho Sithole
      Subscriber

      Hi,

      after dowloading the student version upon opening it gives error message 

      Unexpected error: root element is missing

      Please assist

    • August 7, 2023 at 3:47 pm
      Rajeshwari Jadhav
      Forum Moderator

      Hi Sipho,

      Did you install the setup.exe as admin?

      Can you please type %appdata% in the start menu and rename the Ansys folder to Ansys.old or else please uninstall the application with admin rights, then delete the Ansys folder(%appdata%) and install again.

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