Difficulties with the starting of Simile

Dear Simile support team,

I just bought a license for using Simile standard edition. However, I could not run and save a model, nor open an existing model. Below you’ll find the messages I received from Simile. Could you please give me a hand on that?

Best regards,
Paulo Salles

I installed Simile and tried to create a simple model, following a tutorial.

Having the model done, I went to the Model menu and selected ‘Run”. 

A box with a message came up:

 “Instantiating expressions from node values”

 and entered a loop so that Simile has to be killed by Control+Alt+Del.

In another situation, an additional box has opened with the msg:

“Simile encountered an unexpected problem:

can't read "title": no such variable

can't read "title": no such variable

    while executing

"ExpandQuery $specifics $title $icon  $message $helpRef $parent $opts"

    (procedure "Query" line 61)

    invoked from within

"Query {error existence_error(source_sink,C:/Documents\ and\ Settings/Usuário/My\ Documents/My\ Simile\ files/sim15000/Desktop1/model.cpp) open/3} e..."

    invoked from within

"catch $args retVal"

Press "Help" to display a relevant page from Simile's documentation.”

OPENNING AN EXISTING MODEL

I tried to open old SIMILE files (both in drive C and in a different drive) and received the following Simile error msg:

“Simile encountered an unexpected problem: can’t read “title”: no such variable”

OPENNING AN EXISTING MODEL FROM THE FOLDER “Recent…”

When I try to open a file from this folder, I received the following msg:

“Could not create an autosave file called C:/Documents and Settings/

Usuário/ My Documents/ My Simile files/ Desktop1.smx for this model. No autosave data will be stored until the model is stored somewhere else.”

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