[Tex/LaTex] Package biblatex Error: File ‘”FILENAME”.bbl’ not created by biblatex. \begin{document}

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I an new to LaTeX.. My question is about the error I get

Package biblatex Error: File '"FILENAME".bbl' not created by biblatex.
\begin{document}.

I have tried to read the guide to biblatex but I cannot find the mistake in my own code.. Anybody has an idea of the problem? I will provide all necessary info if you can help me.
I am trying to add the bibliography, but it seems a quite tough task -.-

Thank you!

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This error happens when there is a .bbl file created by BibTeX for a previous version of the document, when biblatex was not loaded.

Since the .bbl file is generated by Biber or BibTeX, you should remove it and run the appropriate program (Biber, if you use the standard setting for biblatex); this operation will generate a new .bbl file according to biblatex wishes.

See biblatex in a nutshell (for beginners)

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Okay, some further research turned up a few interesting things about tex4ht and its relationship with biblatex, plus a provisional fix for my problem. In a nutshell: the author of tex4ht passed away in 2009, and even though Karl Berry et al. took over maintenance, it is not yet fully compatible with the biblatex versions released since then. But they're working on it, and TeXLive 2012 already contains a more up-to-date version of biblatex.4ht (the file that's in charge of the interaction between the two). However, even that version doesn't contain what's necessary for my example to work. I found what I need, though, in an unofficial, anonymous version of biblatex.4ht mentioned here.

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\begin{filecontents}{testbib.bib}
@BOOK{BoS99,
  author = {Bowker, Geoffrey and Star, Susan Leigh},
  year = {1999},
  title = {Sorting Things Out: Classification and its Consequences},
  address = {Cambridge, MA},
  publisher = {MIT Press}
}
\end{filecontents}

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[backend=biber,style=authoryear]{biblatex}
\bibliography{testbib.bib}
\makeatletter                    %[!]
\let\abx@aux@fnpage\@gobbletwo   %[!]
\makeatother                     %[!]
\begin{document}
hat einer und gemacht zu werden%
\footnote{um von Buch wollen \cite{BoS99}}
\end{document}

[Tex/LaTex] biber cannot find control file

Run this test document and tell us if it works.

\documentclass{scrreprt} 
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[british]{babel}
\usepackage[autostyle]{csquotes}
\usepackage[natbib,hyperref,sorting=none]{biblatex}
\addbibresource{biblatex-examples.bib} 
\usepackage{hyperref} 
\begin{document}
foo\nocite{*}   
\printbibliography
\end{document}

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