data file crashes gnucash

[Lenore Horner]

On Mar 30, 2009, at 09:42 , Donald Allen wrote:

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> 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?
At least in my case, it was easier to hand-edit the file than reapply  
several months worth of .log files.  I don't know why old files ended  
up corrupted, but they did.

Lenore

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> Lenore
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> On Mar 30, 2009, at 00:06 , genericmaillists at gmail.com wrote:
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> My data file apparently became corrupt between closing it last night
> and opening it tonight.
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> 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.
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> 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?
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> Thanks for any help I can get.
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