Gnucash file 'corruption' on Mac OS X

[John Ralls]

On Oct 21, 2013, at 6:38 AM, Eric Weigle <eric.weigle at gmail.com> wrote:

> I'm seeing a problem on my wife's Mac where sometimes her saved gnucash
> files cannot be read. After some debugging on my Linux desktop, I
> discovered that it's compression-related: The compressed file cannot be
> read on her machine, but can on mine; running `gunzip -c file.gnucash |
> gzip -c > file2.gnucash` will make it readable on her machine again.
> 
> So something is obviously going wrong with the compression library on Mac,
> or gnucash's integration with it. I've turned off compression with Settings
>> General > Compress files, but would like to figure out an actual solution
> rather than a workaround.
> 
> She's running Gnucash 2.4.12 (I know this is one version back, but the
> release notes mention nothing related) on OS X 10.8.5; the machine is a
> 2.3GHz Intel Core i7 with 8GB 1600 MHz DDR3 memory.
> 

That's really strange. How often does this happen?

I imagine that you tried to run `gunzip -c file.gnucash` on the
Mac and it failed. Did it emit a message or fail silently? 

Regards,
John Ralls