Windows savefile causes to crash next open time

NoNameA 774 nonamea774 at gmail.com
Fri Feb 20 23:14:06 EST 2015


2015-02-21 9:32 GMT+09:00 David Carlson <david.carlson.417 at gmail.com>:

> On 2/20/2015 4:01 PM, Colin Law wrote:
> > On 20 February 2015 at 17:46, NoNameA 774 <nonamea774 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> 2015-02-21 2:37 GMT+09:00 Derek Atkins <warlord at mit.edu>:
> >>
> >>> Hi,
> >>>
> >>> NoNameA 774 <nonamea774 at gmail.com> writes:
> >>>
> >>>>> So you have an xml file that you cannot open on windows, but if you
> >>>>> move that same file to linux you can open it?
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Also you have another file that will open on both?
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Colin
> >>>>>
> >>>> I can open on linux the file that I cannot open on windows.
> >>>> And I can open on both a file I saved on linux
> >>> Exactly what version of GnuCash are you using on Windows?
> >>> This sounds like the "compression bug" that was fixed a while ago.
> >>> Upgrading your GnuCash to the current release might help.
> >>>
> >>> I'm using version 2.6.5(This copy was built from git rev 23d0f79+ on
> >> 2014-12-19.)
> >> It's current version.
> >> I had a new installation this version(I did not use on windows
> previously).
> > You did not say you built it yourself.  The compression bug is not in
> > gnucash but one of the libraries, whether on Windows that means you
> > might have built the latest gnucash but an earlier version of the
> > library I do not know.  To confirm whether it is this issue try saving
> > the file in uncompressed xml (Preferences > General > and clear
> > Compress Files) then see if you can open it in windows.  If you can
> > then it is the compression bug.
> >
> > Colin
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> The current release that I downloaded from the GnuCash website has
> exactly the same build description.  I think NoNameA 774
> did not build it himself.  My copy is working fine in Windows 7,
> although I am not using sqlite.  My files are compressed XML.  The
> compression/no compression test may still reveal something of interest.
> Perhaps he has some other program on his computer that has changed some
> of the programs that GnuCash uses.
>
> David C
>

I did not  build it myself. I downloaded from the GNUCash website.
And I tried to open uncompressed xml file that I saved on windows, but it
lead to crash on my windows.
Uncompressed xml that I saved on linux looks good on windows.

nona


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