From 6a10ecf4d59aa6ded36f1a046c955f466e4f9361 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Lutz Roeder <lutzroeder@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2019 18:50:45 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] Handle invalid configuration (#292)

---
 src/app.js | 13 +++++++------
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/app.js b/src/app.js
index ebc287e169..e01b481edd 100644
--- a/src/app.js
+++ b/src/app.js
@@ -799,21 +799,22 @@ class ViewCollection {
 class ConfigurationService {
 
     load() {
+        this._data = { 'recents': [] };
         var dir = electron.app.getPath('userData');
         if (dir && dir.length > 0) {
             var file = path.join(dir, 'configuration.json'); 
             if (fs.existsSync(file)) {
                 var data = fs.readFileSync(file);
                 if (data) {
-                    this._data = JSON.parse(data);
+                    try {
+                        this._data = JSON.parse(data);
+                    }
+                    catch (error) {
+                        // continue regardless of error
+                    }
                 }
             }
         }
-        if (!this._data) {
-            this._data = {
-                'recents': []
-            };
-        }
     }
 
     save() {