data file crashes gnucash

[Lenore Horner]

I had a similar problem a while ago.  The solution was to unzip the  
file to xml format and then use Safari (or probably Firefox too) to  
open the file.  Safari then complained about bad xml and spat out - in  
nearly unreadable format - the file up to the error.  That let be  
figure out where the error was.  I never figured out what the problem  
was:  I ended up deleting the offending text field and retyping the  
same text and it worked after that.

Lenore

On Mar 30, 2009, at 00:06 , genericmaillists at gmail.com wrote:

> My data file apparently became corrupt between closing it last night
> and opening it tonight.
>
> Initially gnucash would not open so I started trouble shooting to
> find the problem. I run Linux so I launched a KDE console and tried
> to run gnucash. The information dumped to the screen did not reveal
> anything useful. I tried opening one of the *.xac files.
>
> I have at least been able to get as far as being able to open the
> data file but as soon as I try to open any of the accounts in the
> data file, gnucash exists instantly without warning or error
> message.
>
> From the file manager I right clicked the data file and selected
> open with ark. Then I opened the file in the ark window with Kate.
> all my data is there.
>
> I hope I don't have to manually re-enter all that data in a new
> file.
>
> Can any one tell me how to recover this data file so I can use it?
>
> Thanks for any help I can get.
>
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