Gnucash 2.0.2 looses transactions if the file contains special characters

[Derek Atkins]

2.0.4 is current..   Try 2.0.4 and see if it still has the problem?

-derek

Quoting Stephane Carrez <stcarrez at nerim.fr>:

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> Hi!
>
> I've migrated my accounts from Gnucash 1.8 to Gnucash 2.02.  My 
> accounts contain
> several transactions with latin1 characters.  During the conversion, some
> translation from iso-latin1 to utf-8 was made.  The special characters are
> used for the transaction description (<act:description>).
>
> I've then worked on the accounts (OFX import, price editor, reports), 
> saved the file
> and exited Gnucash.
>
> Once I've re-started Gnucash 2.0.2, *many* *many* of the transactions 
> in several
> accounts have *disappeared*.  Some of the transactions were created 
> more than a year ago
> and there were gone!  Quite frightening at that point!!!
>
> I tried to re-launch Gnucash with --debug --loglevel 6 on a backup 
> file, still the same
> problem and no message to understand what happened.
>
> The good news is that the saved Gnucash 2.0.2 file *does* contain 
> these missing transactions.
> So, after de-compressing the Gnucash file (it's a gzip XML), I've 
> imported the file in
> Grisby (http://www.grisbi.org/) and during the import it barks at the 
> special characters.
> After editing the XML, replacing the special characters, Gnucash was 
> able to read and
> retrieve all the transactions.
>
> If it happens to you, do:
> - - do not save (because the missing transactions will really be 
> removed from the file)
> - - if you've saved, get a backup of the file
> - - decompress the file with gzip
> - - edit the file and replace every special character with an ascii character
> - - load the file in Gnucash until you see again the missing transactions
>
>
> Stephane
>
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       Derek Atkins, SB '93 MIT EE, SM '95 MIT Media Laboratory
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