Different XPA issues after connecting

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I am trying to apply a variety of methods after connecting ds9, but running into different issues that all seem related to XPA. One example (that might fix all my other issues) is:

viewer.save_regions(), which returns:

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XpaException Traceback (most recent call last)
in
----> 1 viewer.save_regions()

~/miniconda3/lib/python3.7/site-packages/imexam/connect.py in save_regions(self, *args, **kwargs)
453 def save_regions(self, *args, **kwargs):
454 """Save the regions on the current window to a file."""
--> 455 self.window.save_regions(*args, **kwargs)
456
457 def scale(self, *args, **kwargs):

~/miniconda3/lib/python3.7/site-packages/imexam/ds9_viewer.py in save_regions(self, filename)
1527
1528 """
-> 1529 regions = self.get("regions save")
1530 frame = self.frame()
1531

~/miniconda3/lib/python3.7/site-packages/imexam/ds9_viewer.py in get(self, param)
682 """
683 self._check_ds9_process()
--> 684 return self.xpa.get(param)
685
686 def readcursor(self):

~/miniconda3/lib/python3.7/site-packages/imexam/xpa_wrap.py in get(self, param)
12 def get(self, param=""):
13 """Get information from the xpa."""
---> 14 return super(XPA, self).get(param.encode('utf-8', 'strict')).decode()
15
16 def set(self, param="", buf=None):

wrappers/xpa.pyx in imexam.imexamxpa.xpa.get()

wrappers/xpa.pyx in imexam.imexamxpa._get()

XpaException: b'XPA$ERROR parse error, expecting: AUTOCENTROID, BACKGROUND, CENTROID, COLOR, DELIM, EPSILON, EXCLUDE, FORMAT, GROUP, GROUPS, INCLUDE, SELECTED, SHAPE, SHOW, SHOWTEXT, SKY, SKYFORMAT, SOURCE, STRIP, SYSTEM, WIDTH, MFORMAT, MSYSTEM, MSKY, MSKYFORMAT, MSTRIP, MDELIM, MPROP, MGROUP, found save (DS9:imexam1608650499.592382 ac110719:63900)\n'