Removing carriage return characters from a metadata file (Windows)

To use a metadata file exported on Windows, you must first manually remove any carriage return characters used as line endings.

About this task

On Windows, an exported metadata file may contain carriage return and new line characters as line endings. Before using such a file, manually remove the carriage return characters. The following steps describe using Windows Notepad++, but you can use any text editor to remove these characters.

Procedure

  1. Open the metadata file in the Notepad++ text editor.
  2. From the View menu, select Show Symbol > Show End of Line.
  3. From any line ending that appears as CRLF, delete the CR characters as follows.
    1. Select the characters to be deleted.
    2. From the Edit menu, select EOL Conversion > Unix (LF).
  4. Save and close the metadata file.