data file crashes gnucash

[Donald Allen]

On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 2:05 PM, Lenore Horner
<LenoreHorner at sbcglobal.net>wrote:

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> On Mar 30, 2009, at 09:42 , Donald Allen wrote:
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> On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 10:14 AM, Lenore Horner <
> LenoreHorner at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
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>> 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.
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> Assuming only the main file is affected (it wasn't clear from the original
> post), rather than hand-editing that file, why not use the normal,
> documented gnucash recovery procedure -- open the latest .xac file and then
> import the subsequent .log files?
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> At least in my case, it was easier to hand-edit the file than reapply
> several months worth of .log files.  I don't know why old files ended up
> corrupted, but they did.
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Apparently his situation is nothing like yours, nor is it what I thought it
might be (just the current file corrupted), so neither of our solutions
applies. It sounds like he and his Linux distribution have somehow conspired
to produce a non-working gnucash package.

/Don


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> Lenore
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> /Don
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>> Lenore
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>> On Mar 30, 2009, at 00:06 , genericmaillists at gmail.com wrote:
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>>  My data file apparently became corrupt between closing it last night
>>> and opening it tonight.
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>>> 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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