Eek - lost all my data

[Derek Atkins]

Colin Law <clanlaw at googlemail.com> writes:

> 2009/7/12 Gordon Sommerville <seaslug1954 at googlemail.com>:
>> 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)
>
> I can't believe that no-one can help this guy.  How can it be that all
> the xac files are corrupt?  Is this a horrendous bug in gnucash?

Because the corruption happened once and keeps happening...

> Gordon send me one of the xac files privately and I will have a look
> at it to see if I can read it.

Check for a "-1" timestamp..  There seems to be a win32-specific
time issue where sometimes a function returns "-1" and apparently
we don't check that properly somewhere....

> Colin

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-derek

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