data file crashes gnucash

[genericmaillists at gmail.com]

On Monday 30 March 2009 10:42:42 Donald Allen wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 10:14 AM, Lenore Horner
>
> <LenoreHorner at sbcglobal.net>wrote:
> > I had a similar problem a while ago.  The solution was to unzip
> > the file to xml format and then use Safari (or probably Firefox
> > too) to open the file. Safari then complained about bad xml and
> > spat out - in nearly unreadable format - the file up to the
> > error.  That let be figure out where the error was.  I never
> > figured out what the problem was:  I ended up deleting the
> > offending text field and retyping the same text and it worked
> > after that.
>
> Assuming only the main file is affected (it wasn't clear from the
> original post), rather than hand-editing that file, why not use
> the normal, documented gnucash recovery procedure -- open the
> latest .xac file and then import the subsequent .log files?
>
> /Don
>
> > Lenore
> >
> >
> > On Mar 30, 2009, at 00:06 , genericmaillists at gmail.com wrote:
> >
> >  My data file apparently became corrupt between closing it last
> > night
> >
> >> and opening it tonight.
> >>
> >> Initially gnucash would not open so I started trouble shooting
> >> to find the problem. I run Linux so I launched a KDE console
> >> and tried to run gnucash. The information dumped to the screen
> >> did not reveal anything useful. I tried opening one of the
> >> *.xac files.
> >>
> >> I have at least been able to get as far as being able to open
> >> the data file but as soon as I try to open any of the accounts
> >> in the data file, gnucash exists instantly without warning or
> >> error message.
> >>
> >> From the file manager I right clicked the data file and
> >> selected open with ark. Then I opened the file in the ark
> >> window with Kate. all my data is there.
> >>
> >> I hope I don't have to manually re-enter all that data in a
> >> new file.
> >>
> >> Can any one tell me how to recover this data file so I can use
> >> it?
> >>
> >> Thanks for any help I can get.

I did all the standard recovery steps and nothing worked. I know the 
file itself is not corrupt and all the data can be recovered in 
text/xml format. It appears that my Linux Distro version of gnucash 
or something gnucash is dependent on was updated and that seems to 
be the problem. I told them about it and they are working on it 
right now. I hope to be back in business later.

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