For completeness I will post how this problem was resolved to the whole list:<br><br>I opened the data file with vim. Did a search for the date string with:<br><br>/date>19<br><br>I have vim set to automatically find my search string and highlight it so it jumped to a date entry which was 1901. I copied the data file to back it up then edited that date to be 2001. Voila, everything is running fine now.
<br><br>Thanks Derek for the help in this!<br><br>tom<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 4/17/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Derek Atkins</b> <<a href="mailto:warlord@mit.edu">warlord@mit.edu</a>> wrote:</span>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Hmm.. I wonder if you have a bogus date in your data file.<br>Open your data file in your favorite editor (vi, emacs, etc)
<br>and search for "1969" and "1970". All dates must be after<br>Jan 1, 1970. GnuCash cannot handle dates prior to that.<br><br>-derek<br><br>"Thomas C. Hicks, MD" <<a href="mailto:paradox@pobox.com">
paradox@pobox.com</a>> writes:<br><br>> As I said, a newbie, should have thought of that before.<br>><br>> The output in Xterm is as follows:<br>><br>> **CRITICAL **: file gnc-transaction-xml-v2.c: line 443
<br>> (set_tran_date):assertion `tm' failed<br>><br>> Again, all assistance is appreciated.<br>><br>> tom<br>><br>> Derek Atkins wrote:<br>><br>>>hi,<br>>><br>>>We need more information. In particular, what does gnucash
<br>>>print out on your gnome-terminal/xterm when it sees this<br>>>problem in your data file?<br>>><br>>>-derek<br>>><br>>>tom <<a href="mailto:paradox@pobox.com">paradox@pobox.com</a>
> writes:<br>>><br>>><br>>><br>>>> Help! I am a newbie to GNUCash (using 1.8.9 for Linux). I have<br>>>> about finished inputing all my data for a couple of brokerage<br>>>> accounts. I saved the data before exiting but then the next time I
<br>>>> tried to start the program I get "There<br>>>> was an error parsing the file" and an indication of my home<br>>>> accounts file.<br>>>><br>>>> The program goes on to start but doesn't load my data file. I have
<br>>>> tried doing an Import>Replay Log file operation on the final 5 or<br>>>> so log files in my data directory but no go. Is there anything<br>>>> that can be done? All help is appreciated.
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</blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>SDG,<br><br>tom