# Confusing Compiler error

**URL:** <https://forum.xojo.com/t/confusing-compiler-error/37833>\
**Category:** General\
**Created:** [May 25, 2017, 3:04pm UTC](https://forum.xojo.com/t/confusing-compiler-error/37833 "2017-05-25T15:04:13Z")\
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**Author:** ![Underwriters\_Technologies](https://forum.xojo.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/u/ed655f/32.png) [@Underwriters\_Technologies](https://forum.xojo.com/u/Underwriters_Technologies)\
**Post date:** [May 25, 2017, 3:04pm UTC](https://forum.xojo.com/t/confusing-compiler-error/37833/1 "2017-05-25T15:04:13Z")

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Image here: [https://yadi.sk/i/He-TTdVO3JX7CZ](https://yadi.sk/i/He-TTdVO3JX7CZ)

I have a project that simply went to he[/img]ll when I cut and pasted a property from a webpage into the session class.

After that Xojo stopped seeing and of the properties int session class.

Has anyone seen this sort to fo thing before? App.name --\> This item does not exist??

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**Author:** ![Underwriters\_Technologies](https://forum.xojo.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/u/ed655f/32.png) [@Underwriters\_Technologies](https://forum.xojo.com/u/Underwriters_Technologies)\
**Post date:** [May 25, 2017, 3:52pm UTC](https://forum.xojo.com/t/confusing-compiler-error/37833/2 "2017-05-25T15:52:20Z")

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Solved: (Sort of) I’ll answer my own question in case anyone else sees this in the future.

I somehow managed to get a property on a webpage1

It was supposed to be called webpage1.myproperty

Somehow the IDE “Changed” the name of the property to “Session.myproperty”

The IDE will not let you put a period into the name

but it cleary somehow did in a cut and paste

Image: [https://yadi.sk/i/WqubBoJJ3JXCHo](https://yadi.sk/i/WqubBoJJ3JXCHo)

(I was cutting and pasting the property from the session to webpage1

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**Author:** ![Underwriters\_Technologies](https://forum.xojo.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/u/ed655f/32.png) [@Underwriters\_Technologies](https://forum.xojo.com/u/Underwriters_Technologies)\
**Post date:** [May 25, 2017, 4:02pm UTC](https://forum.xojo.com/t/confusing-compiler-error/37833/3 "2017-05-25T16:02:48Z")

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Mystery solved Bug: 48180

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**Author:** ![system](https://forum.xojo.com/uploads/default/original/1X/455b4dcc0e61630e9f81940004ddffa49c432a46.png) [@system](https://forum.xojo.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [October 29, 2020, 6:47pm UTC](https://forum.xojo.com/t/confusing-compiler-error/37833/4 "2020-10-29T18:47:06Z")

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