From f6eadbd1c900b5f779ebbf3c539192cd3c2b98cc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "jeremy@jermolene.com" <jeremy@jermolene.com>
Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2021 12:56:55 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Fix crash with reading invalid JSON files

---
 boot/boot.js | 7 ++++++-
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/boot/boot.js b/boot/boot.js
index ed8da06d1..9a0af66e2 100644
--- a/boot/boot.js
+++ b/boot/boot.js
@@ -1622,7 +1622,12 @@ $tw.modules.define("$:/boot/tiddlerdeserializer/json","tiddlerdeserializer",{
 				}
 				return true;
 			},
-			data = JSON.parse(text);
+			data = {};
+		try {
+			data = JSON.parse(text);			
+		} catch(e) {
+			// Ignore JSON parse errors
+		}
 		if($tw.utils.isArray(data) && isTiddlerArrayValid(data)) {
 			return data;
 		} else if(isTiddlerValid(data)) {