Hi, Collin, thanks for the pointer to that Github project. I think it's not going to help w/o some major work, though I may be wrong.

I spent the last hour feeding error messages to Claude to tweak *one* of the python scripts on my mac to see what it would do with a v14 .nvpx file, and after learning about virtual environments and loading a fair number of dependencies, eventually ended up with:

python3 NVPX2RQDA3.py Wednesday.nvpx
Found SQLAnywhere installation at /Applications/NVivo.app/Contents/SQLAnywhere/bin64
/Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/usr/bin/install_name_tool: warning: changes being made to the file will invalidate the code signature in: /Applications/NVivo.app/Contents/SQLAnywhere/lib64/libdbcapi_r.rpath.dylib
Warning: Could not parse environment line: 'nvivoversion='
Missing database encryption key for database '/var/folders/qr/b54flwhx36n2tvql38myd9gc0000gn/T/tmpu1hjpv0c'.

With Claude suggesting,
The script is now trying to work with your NVivo file, but it's encountering an encryption issue. NVivo files (especially from newer versions like your NVivo 14) are encrypted, and the script needs the encryption key to access the data.
The error message Missing database encryption key for database suggests that the conversion tool doesn't have the necessary decryption capabilities for your NVivo file.
This is a common issue with newer NVivo versions. The tool you're using (nvivotools) was likely developed for older NVivo versions (10 and 11 as mentioned in the script), and NVivo has changed its encryption methods in newer versions.

So maybe something can be done to update the encryption algorithms, but I'm guessing not :-(

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