Merge branch 'soon' into staging

www/common/outer/userObject.js

@@ -506,8 +506,14 @@ define([
             var fixRoot = function (elem) {
                 if (typeof(files[ROOT]) !== "object") { debug("ROOT was not an object"); files[ROOT] = {}; }
                 var element = elem || files[ROOT];
+                if (!element) { return console.error("Invalid element in root"); }
                 var nbMetadataFolders = 0;
                 for (var el in element) {
+                    if (element[el] === null) {
+                        console.error('element[%s] is null', el);
+                        delete element[el];
+                        continue;
+                    }
                     if (exp.isFolderData(element[el])) {
                         if (nbMetadataFolders !== 0) {
                             debug("Multiple metadata files in folder");