Can't Parse

[Derek Atkins]

Hi,

Quoting JUNIPER <snijuniper at comcast.net>:

> (I don't think the gun was loaded.)

I'm afraid it was...

> The FAQ doesn't seem to fit my situation. After the upgrade was 
> complete GC seemed to load and run fine. It was only after adding a 
> couple of transactions and saving and closing that the problem popped 
> up. The current data file was apparently successfully saved but GC 
> now no longer runs. Why would hitting the "save" button overwrite 
> some kind of essential other program, if that is what happens? I've 
> saved a million times before with no problem.

No, it EXACTLY fits your situation.  GnuCash owns $HOME/.gnucash.
You erroneously stored your datafile there.  Previous versions of
GnuCash named the metadata file "Escape_url(file_fullpath)", but
in 2.x the metadata file was changed to just "basename(file)".  So
if your datafile was named ~/.gnucash/books/data, the metadata file
used to be ~/.gnucash/books/home[/]myname[/].gnucash[/]books[/]data
(where [/] is the escaping of "/")..  But as of now your metadata
file is now ~/.gnucash/books/data.  See the problem?

So, what happened is that as soon as you exited gnucash it wrote out
the metadata file as ~/.gnucash/books/data, overwriting your data file
~/.gnucash/books/data.

This is EXACTLY the FAQ entry.

Your only recovery is to go to a backup file and then move it OUTSIDE
your ~/.gnucash tree and then File -> Open it.

> Appreciatively,
>
> Steve J

-derek

> Derek Atkins wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Quoting JUNIPER <snijuniper at comcast.net>:
>>
>>> We just upgraded to Kubuntu 7.1. GnuCash worked fine once, but now,
>>> during the booting process, I get the msg:
>>>
>>> Can't parse the URL /home/steve/.gnucash/books/allfinance.
>>>
>>> Then, before closing I then get a "<no file>" window.
>>> Any idea what might be the problem and how it might be solved?
>>> Thanks!
>>
>> Please see the FAQ:
>>
>> http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/FAQ#Q:_Why_can.27t_GnuCash_find_my_data_file_anymore.3F__It_just_says:_parser_error_:_Start_tag_expected.2C_.27.3C.27_not_found
>>>    SteveJ
>>
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>>
>> -derek
>>
>



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