can not open xml-file on windows

[Colin Law]

On 29 September 2011 14:46, Geert Janssens <janssens-geert at telenet.be> wrote:
> On donderdag 29 september 2011, Johannes Kapune wrote:
>> Hi to all,
>> before I open a new bug report I first ask here.
>>
>> On Vista I installed from
>>
>> http://code.gnucash.org/builds/win32/trunk/
>>
>> 2.4.99 SVN r21359.
>> I copied my xml file from 2.4.7 and try to open but I get an empty
>> window. Next I make new accounts but after starting gnucash again I also
>> get an empty window.
>> I tried to file open and I get in header line the name but window left
>> empty.
>>
>> It is my fault, or it is a bug? What can I do?
>>
> It is a bug:
> https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=651645
>
> Trunk currently can't open compressed data files.
>
> I have been looking at the bug recently, but don't immediatly spot what's
> wrong.
>
> You can work around it by saving your data file uncompressed. For that, open
> it with 2.4.7, uncheck Edit->Preferences->General->Compress files and save
> your data file again.

Johannes: Just pointing out, in case you did not realise, that you
have built from the development source rather than the current stable
release, which is 2.4.7.

Colin