Illumiprocessor error: configparser.MissingSectionHeaderError: File contains no section headers.

[marianamazzochi]

Hello,
I am having some issues when trying to use the pipeline for Illumiprocessor. I would be very grateful if one of you is able to help me to found it out.
I am working in a MacOS Monterey 12.6. I used some example files from Rapid Genomics and my .conf file looks like this:

---

[adapters]

i7 = GATCGGAAGAGCACACGTCTGAACTCCAGTCACBCBCBCBCATCTCGTATGCCGTCTTCTGCTTG

i5 = AATGATACGGCGACCACCGAGATCTACACBCBCBCBCACACTCTTTCCCTACACGACGCTCTTCCGATCT

[tag sequences]

i5P01WG01 = TCTACTCT

i7P01WG01 = CACCTTAC

[tag map]

RAPiDGenomicsP01WG01 = i5P01WG01,i7P01WG01

[names]

RAPiDGenomicsP01WG01 = apeteJLB07

---

When I try to run "illumiprocessor
--input 1_raw-fastq
--output 2_clean-fastq
--config illumiprocessor.conf
--cores 4", I get the following error (I am pasting the complete error):

"2022-10-17 16:25:46,835 - illumiprocessor - INFO - ==================== Starting illumiprocessor ===================
2022-10-17 16:25:46,835 - illumiprocessor - INFO - Version: 2.10
2022-10-17 16:25:46,835 - illumiprocessor - INFO - Argument --config: illumiprocessor.conf
2022-10-17 16:25:46,835 - illumiprocessor - INFO - Argument --cores: 4
2022-10-17 16:25:46,836 - illumiprocessor - INFO - Argument --input: /Users/marimazzochi/Desktop/1_raw-fastq
2022-10-17 16:25:46,836 - illumiprocessor - INFO - Argument --log_path: None
2022-10-17 16:25:46,836 - illumiprocessor - INFO - Argument --min_len: 40
2022-10-17 16:25:46,836 - illumiprocessor - INFO - Argument --no_merge: False
2022-10-17 16:25:46,836 - illumiprocessor - INFO - Argument --output: /Users/marimazzochi/Desktop/2_clean-fastq
2022-10-17 16:25:46,836 - illumiprocessor - INFO - Argument --phred: phred33
2022-10-17 16:25:46,836 - illumiprocessor - INFO - Argument --r1_pattern: _R1
2022-10-17 16:25:46,836 - illumiprocessor - INFO - Argument --r2_pattern: _R2
2022-10-17 16:25:46,836 - illumiprocessor - INFO - Argument --se: False
2022-10-17 16:25:46,836 - illumiprocessor - INFO - Argument --trimmomatic: /Users/marimazzochi/opt/miniconda3/envs/phyluce-1.7.1/bin/trimmomatic
2022-10-17 16:25:46,836 - illumiprocessor - INFO - Argument --verbosity: INFO
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/Users/marimazzochi/opt/miniconda3/envs/phyluce-1.7.1/bin/illumiprocessor", line 17, in
sys.exit(main())
File "/Users/marimazzochi/opt/miniconda3/envs/phyluce-1.7.1/lib/python3.6/site-packages/illumiprocessor/cli/main.py", line 114, in main
main(args)
File "/Users/marimazzochi/opt/miniconda3/envs/phyluce-1.7.1/lib/python3.6/site-packages/illumiprocessor/main.py", line 29, in main
conf.read(args.config)
File "/Users/marimazzochi/opt/miniconda3/envs/phyluce-1.7.1/lib/python3.6/configparser.py", line 697, in read
self._read(fp, filename)
File "/Users/marimazzochi/opt/miniconda3/envs/phyluce-1.7.1/lib/python3.6/configparser.py", line 1080, in _read
raise MissingSectionHeaderError(fpname, lineno, line)
configparser.MissingSectionHeaderError: File contains no section headers."

In order to make it work, I tried some things that I found on StackOverFlow and on GitHub, but nothing worked out: 1 - replacing "-" for "*" in the adapters section because some people that use MacOS said that this caused troubles for them; 2 - replaced ":" for "="; 3 - changed UTF-8 for ASCII when saving my .conf file.
I suspect that this issue may be related to formatting of .conf file. I am not able to save it as .conf, only as .rtf on TextEdit or as .csv on Numbers, and then I am manually changing it to .conf on Terminal (using the command 'mv').
That said, do you have any suggestion about the error or maybe about a different way of creating a .conf file?

Cheers,
Mariana Mazzochi