From 1.8.x to 2.x: "There was an error parsing the file"

[Derek Atkins]

Quoting Martin Wolters <martin at martinwolters.com>:

> Hi,
>
> I am planning to upgrade from my old debian machine (gnucash 1.8.x) 
> to a new kubuntu (gnucash 2.x). When trying to open an old gnucash 
> file I am first asked to select the correct character decoding (I 
> chosse ISO), but then gnucash reports  "There was an error parsing 
> the file". There is no print-out on the command line regarding this 
> error. What can I do to fix/circumvent/debug the problem?
>
> Thanks in advance

Are you sure that ISO is correct?  Did you actually spend the time
looking through the document to see if ISO is correct?  You MIGHT
have a combination of ISO and UTF8 which requires manual intervention
to fix.  If you have a broken datafile, gnucash will fail to load it.

-derek

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