unable to read gnucash file

hendrik at topoi.pooq.com hendrik at topoi.pooq.com
Fri Apr 13 11:31:39 EDT 2007


On Fri, Apr 13, 2007 at 02:57:32PM +0000, René Brandenburger wrote:
> Hi list,
> 
> for a long time i had no trouble with gnucash, but now i got the
> following:
> 
> i entered some transactions and saved the file (ok so far)
> i closed the application (no problem so far)
> the next day i wanted to open start working on the file again, here is
> where the trouble began:
> a dialog box pops up telling me there was a problem reading the file, no
> indication what went wrong, starting the application on the comandline
> with --debug does not print out any clue about what went wrong :-(
 > 
> is there a way to get more information on what goes wrong here ?
> 
> using gnucash 2.0.4 compiled from sources on ubuntu
> 
> thanks in advance
> 
> rene brandenburger
> 
> ps: i was able to recover the data from the backup and log files, but i
> would like to know what went wrong there, as i don't want to rely on
> backup-log-replay to keep me up working ...

Is there any chance you ran out of disk space or quota?

-- hendrik


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