Error parsing file

[Rajesh Jayaprakash]

Cam, thanks for your response. I deleted the .gnucash directory,
recreated it by running gnucash, and overwrote its contents with those
of the other partition's .gnucash. No go, the error persists :-(

On Nov 18, 2007 9:34 PM, Cam Ellison <cam at ellisonpsychology.ca> wrote:
> Rajesh Jayaprakash wrote:
> > Hi folks,
> >
> > Some history first:
> >
> > I have been using Gnucash 2.2.1 on Ubuntu 7.10. When I tried to open
> > the same account file in Kubuntu 7.04 installed in another partition,
> > there was a parsing error, with an XML snippet related to scheduled
> > transactions displayed on the console.
> >
> > I rebooted into Ubuntu, opened the file successfully, and deleted the
> > scheduled transaction. After this, I was able to open and save the
> > file in Kubuntu as well.
> >
> > Next I did a distro upgrade in Kububtu, which brought the Gnucash
> > version to 2.2.1 as well. But now I am no longer able to open the
> > file, either in Kubuntu or in Ubuntu (not to mention Mandriva 2008,
> > existing in another partition and running 2.2.1). The error essage is
> > "There is an error parsing the file <file name>".
>
> I ran into something like this when I upgraded my wife's machine from
> edgy to gutsy.  I moved her .gnucash directory to another partition and
> restarted gnucash, which created a new .gnucash directory.  I then
> copied saved-reports-2.0 and stylesheets-2.0 to the new one, and all is
> well.
>
> HTH
>
> Cam
>
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