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

[Martin Wolters]

Thanks Derek and Josh. Looking at /tmp/gnucash.trace did the trick. There was 
a message about a wrong time stamp within a price tag which I simply deleted. 

Now I only need to make sure home banking works on the 2.x branch and I am 
ready to upgrade. 

Thanks for the good work!

-M

On Wednesday 23 May 2007 12:39 am, you wrote:
> 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
> >
> > ----- original message --------
> >
> > 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)
> >>        URL: http://web.mit.edu/warlord/    PP-ASEL-IA     N1NWH
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> >
> > --- original message end ----

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