Eek - lost all my data

[Gordon Sommerville]

Thanks - tried it, but sadly I'm still getting the same error.
Gordon

On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 11:10 AM, Derek Atkins <warlord at mit.edu> wrote:

> 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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