From 1.8.x to 2.x: "There was an error parsing the file"

[Derek Atkins]

Um, check /tmp/gnucash.trace and the terminal where you started
gnucash?  Other than that, I'm afraid not.

-derek

Quoting Martin Wolters <martin at martinwolters.com>:

> Hi Derek,
>
> thanks for your quick reply. I double-checked the list provided by 
> gnucash again and all entries make sense with the ISO coding. Is 
> there a way of getting a more verbose output during the parsing 
> process?
>
> Thanks in advance
>
> -M
>
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> Subject: Re: From 1.8.x to 2.x: "There was an error parsing the file"
> Sent: Wed, 23 May 2007
> From: Derek Atkins<warlord at mit.edu>
>
>> Quoting Martin Wolters <martin at martinwolters.com>:
>>
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > I am planning to upgrade from my old debian machine (gnucash 1.8.x)
>> > to a new kubuntu (gnucash 2.x). When trying to open an old gnucash
>> > file I am first asked to select the correct character decoding (I
>> > chosse ISO), but then gnucash reports  "There was an error parsing
>> > the file". There is no print-out on the command line regarding this
>> > error. What can I do to fix/circumvent/debug the problem?
>> >
>> > Thanks in advance
>>
>> Are you sure that ISO is correct?  Did you actually spend the time
>> looking through the document to see if ISO is correct?  You MIGHT
>> have a combination of ISO and UTF8 which requires manual intervention
>> to fix.  If you have a broken datafile, gnucash will fail to load it.
>>
>> -derek
>>
>> --
>>        Derek Atkins, SB '93 MIT EE, SM '95 MIT Media Laboratory
>>        Member, MIT Student Information Processing Board  (SIPB)
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       Derek Atkins, SB '93 MIT EE, SM '95 MIT Media Laboratory
       Member, MIT Student Information Processing Board  (SIPB)
       URL: http://web.mit.edu/warlord/    PP-ASEL-IA     N1NWH
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