Eek - lost all my data

[Derek Atkins]

There was also a reported error where someone got a time value of
"-1" which works out to 23:59:59 Dec 31, 1969..  Could you check
for that time in your data file XML?

-derek

Gordon Sommerville <seaslug1954 at googlemail.com> writes:

> 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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       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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