Eek - lost all my data

[Derek Atkins]

Someone else reported that if they changed the application properties
to run as XP then it worked -- Can you try setting that?

-derek

Quoting Gordon Sommerville <seaslug1954 at googlemail.com>:

> All my xac files are corrupted, so I fear I'm back to square one. Weird
> problem!
>
> On Sun, Jul 12, 2009 at 11:11 PM, M Prindle <mprindle at pobox.com> wrote:
>
>> I had the same exact issue when I first was starting out.  I was setting up
>> my account manually instead of importing.  I finally went back two or three
>> xac files, which btw are all backups to get my data back.  I still don't
>> know what caused the original problem though.
>>
>> Gordon Sommerville wrote:
>>
>>> Just spent a long weekend moving to Gnucash from Microsoft Money, and now
>>> can't recover any data from my backups...
>>> "There was an error parsing the file
>>> C:\Users\Gordon\gnunew.20090712145351.xac."
>>>
>>> The files are all there, but they just won't open. Is there any hope of
>>> recovering the data?
>>>
>>> (Running gnucash 2.29 on windows vista)
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