Mac OSX "error parsing the file"--I need help!
Derek Atkins
warlord at MIT.EDU
Wed Dec 24 15:36:34 EST 2014
Geert Janssens <geert.gnucash at kobaltwit.be> writes:
> On Tuesday 23 December 2014 13:51:08 De Clarkson wrote:
>> When I tried to open the file outside of the application, that's when
>> I was clicking on the .gnucash file, results above. If I open
>> Gnucash and go to File>Open and choose one of my recent .gnucash
>> files…
>>
>> it opened!!
>>
>> I can't believe the fix was that easy. My window didn't open with the
>> default Account tabs, but it did open with all my accounts (at a
>> cursory glance) there.
>>
>> Wow. You're smart, and I'm not! Thank you!
>>
>> P.S. Any idea why that worked and the rest of it didn't?
>>
> Yes - this is a known bug in the OS X version of GnuCash. On OS X you
> can't double-click on a
> gnucash data file in the finder to open it. GnuCash will open but it
> will not know you double-
> clicked on a file.
The other possibility is that De was (is?) hitting the gzip bug (OP said
2.4.13, which IIRC had not fixed that, yet).
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-derek
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