Gnucash crashes while loading an existing file

[Derek Atkins]

Quoting Carl Moller <cmoller at ece.ualberta.ca>:

> Derek Atkins wrote:
>> Carl Moller <cmoller at ece.ualberta.ca> writes:
>>
>> Remove this file:
>>
>>
>>> ""/home/carl/.gnucash/books/%2Fhome%2Fcarl%2FFinancial%2FGnuCash%2FOLD%2FHome+Finances"
>>>
>>
>> Actually, you should make a backup copy of this file before you remove
>> it (and maybe even create a bug report and supply this file as an
>> attachment).  It's a metadata file from 1.8.x and apparently causing
>> gnucash to break.
>>
>> -derek
>>
>>
> Well, this did fix the problem. But I unfortunately forgot to make a 
> backup of the file...next time I guess. Just out of curiosity, from 
> the data I provided you, how did you determine what the problem was?

reading the logs it was throwing an error when trying to parse the
file, so the obvious next step was to remove the errant file.  Knowing
that just comes from lots of experience.

> Thanks again.
>
> carl

-derek

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