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The error with verbose logging:
```I0208 19:23:55.507051   46896 sink.go:154] defaultSink::Error(error: invalid character '"' after top-level value)
error: invalid character '"' after top-level value```

Not sure about macOS, but If you're running locally try searching for a `.pulumi` folder in your homedir. That contains all your state files and caching information as well.

Just found that. Is it safe to just remove everything in the `workspaces` dir inside `.pulumi`?

I genuinely don't know. Make a backup copy of the .pulumi dir first, at least

Are you always in the same project when this happens? Have you checked your Pulumi.yaml and Pulumi.&lt;stack&gt;.yaml?

And see if `pulumi stack export --file stack.json` works, maybe? And check that file.

Are you just trying things out or do you have a reasonable prod stack in place already?

<@U012UJTT55M> I'll check another project real quick. The YML files look fine -- haven't changed. Exporting the stack fails with the same invalid character error.

<@U013QM2EK7Y> Yeah - we have a dev stack in place. This happened while running integration tests / updating stuff on a personal stack though.

Hmm. the command that fail in the current project work when I switch to another one. :thinking_face:

Likely the stack then, somehow... what backend are you using?

Cool, so it's easy to download the state file and view it.

The first thing I would do is get a hold of that statefile in AWS and run it through `jq`, just to guarantee that it's valid JSON

If the error message is accurate, then it should be easy to find. There'll be a `"` after the closing `}`

In your AWS bucket (specified in Pulumi.yaml). I can't remember the exact path, but once you're in the bucket in the AWS console, it's pretty easy to find.

Your backend definition in Pulumi.yaml should tell you where to look

Should be something like: `s3://&lt;bucket_name&gt;/&lt;project_name&gt;/.pulumi/stacks/&lt;stack-name&gt;.json`

Yeah, I derped. We're using Pulumi as the backend. Am I able to do the same thing? I don't see a CLI command for getting that state outside of exporting the stack.

Deleting the contents of `~/.pulumi/workspaces` seems to have cleared up the issue.

Assuming the stack file in there got corrupted somehow. Appreciate the help, fellas!

<@U01GW8YHZ2L> sorry for the trouble you had, and, <@U013QM2EK7Y> and <@U012UJTT55M>, thanks for helping to troubleshoot!

I've opened <https://github.com/pulumi/pulumi/issues/6287> to provide a better error message and experience in this situation.