Eek - lost all my data

[Gordon Sommerville]

Thanks for your help - but I'm afraid that I'm fairly computer illiterate so
don't understand your suggestion! I have uninstalled gnucash, and
reinstalled it to run as xp, and re-done the spadework. It seems fine now -
but I am also heavily backed up !
Gordon

On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 11:52 AM, Derek Atkins <warlord at mit.edu> wrote:

> 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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