Unable to open project: repo.noindex

Ok, so I've also been having the same issue....for days. I am just learning how to use character animator, to be honest. I thought I really screwed something up by accident, either through my files or a setting I didn't realize I did. I would open the programme and right off the bat, I'd get the nil value error. I too kept looking around for answers. I tried clearing the history, resetting the workspace. I would try to go to edit and a few other panels, and the damn thing would pop up. (I have 3.1 btw)

I then got an idea. I closed animator. I then located all the project files I had, and deleted them. This was ok for me, because as I was simply messing around this this point, I wasn't losing anything important. I cleared them from my recycle bin, just to be sure. I then reopened animator. I got the this project can't be opened error, so I saved the blank thing as a new project. I am now able to access edit and the other things agskn, so hopefully that fixed it. 

I also want thank oksamurai for his YouTube vids and project downloads. That blank file you put up is crucial when learning how to set up your files. That is what I'm doing now. 

anyway, hope I've helped folks. I feel relieved that I've at least stopped spinnng my own wheels for now, and hopefully got *some* kind of workaround going here!!! Good luck!

Ms. Nirmal Singh, of Nirmal in New York (your girl about town lol) 

I found a solution to this problem. This happen when the odb.sqlite3 is corrupted. A way to test is download https://sqlitebrowser.org/dl/

Install and open the file odb.sqlite3 with DB Sqlite Browser. If get error like: SQLite database disk is malformed, your file is corrupted. To recovery, you need to download the command line application Sqlite3 at https://www.sqlite.org/2019/sqlite-tools-win32-x86-3280000.zip. Decompress and copy the file odb.sqlite3 in folder that was decompressed. Open a CMD from Windows (or bash shell on Mac), enter in folder and run this command to Dump data from file (sample path):

C:/sqlite_folder/sqlite3.exe odb.sqlite3

Inside Sqlite 3 prompt, run this command to Dump:

sqlite> .mode insert

sqlite> .output dump_all.sql

sqlite> .dump

And exit program with CTRL + C (or command + C on Mac)

Open the file dump_all.sql with any script editor like Notepad++ on Windows or similar on Mac https://notepad-plus-plus.org/download/v7.6.6.html and delete two lines with content only: BEGIN TRANSATION; and ROLLBACK; --due to errors. Save the file.

Very Important, do a backup file renaming odb.sqlite3 file to odb.sqlite3.bkp and open a new odb.sqlite3 file with:

C:/sqlite_folder/sqlite3.exe odb.sqlite3

So read the file .sql to write a new odb.sqlite3 file inside SQLite prompt with:

sqlite> .read dump_all.sql

Wait a long time to write this if your file is big. When done, close the command with CTRL + C.

Copy the odb.sqlite3 file in project, test if open with DB SQLite program without errors. If open, try to open project. With me worked perfect with some errors. So, save it like a new project and back to the fun.

Sorry my english.

I would not run any cloud sync at same time as CH. the lack of tick probably means still syncing (File not complete or upload not complete). The adobe sync does not work well with ch.  You will get frequent errors about files being locked etc. you can suspend sync while in CH, but these days I keep the directories separate and copy the project over to make backups manually.