Please Help!!!! Cannot open my gnucash file!

[JP Briggs]

On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 11:04 AM, Derek Atkins <warlord at mit.edu> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> "jp.briggs" <jp.briggs at gmail.com> writes:
>
> > When I try opening my file, I get an error window: Can't parse the URL
> > /home/jp/Documents/gnucash/JPandRobyn
> > Then if I try to open my file with --debug --extra, here's the terminal
> > output when the error pops up:
> > jp at Macbuntu:~/Documents/gnucash$ gnucash --debug --extra JPandRobyn
> > gnc.bin-Message: main: binreloc relocation support was disabled at
> configure
> > time.
> >
> > Found Finance::Quote version 1.16
> > /home/jp/Documents/gnucash/JPandRobyn:2: element gconf: Schemas validity
> > error : Element 'gconf': No matching global declaration available for the
> > validation root.
> > /home/jp/Documents/gnucash/JPandRobyn:2: element gconf: Schemas validity
> > error : Element 'gconf': No matching global declaration available for the
> > validation root.
> > /home/jp/Documents/gnucash/JPandRobyn:2: element gconf: Schemas validity
> > error : Element 'gconf': No matching global declaration available for the
> > validation root.
> >
> > Has anyone seen this recently, or know what I can do to fix this?!? I
> really
> > need access to my financial data.
>
> Umm, there's no 'gconf' element in a GnuCash file.  What are the first
> few lines of /home/jp/Documents/gnucash/JPandRobyn?  (If it's
> compressed, use something like:
>  zcat /home/jp/Documents/gnucash/JPandRobyn | head
>
> > Thanks,
> >
> > -JP
>
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>
> -derek
> --
>       Derek Atkins, SB '93 MIT EE, SM '95 MIT Media Laboratory
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Alright. Now it looks like perhaps the data file got corrupted or something?
If I open JPandRobyn (my data file) with Firefox, I get:
XML Parsing Error: not well-formed
Location: file:///home/jp/Documents/gnucash/JPandRobyn
Line Number 7, Column 1:

If I open JPandRobyn is Screem, I can see the 1st 6 lines. The 7th appears
blank, and there's nothing after the 1st 6...

Is there any way I can repair this file? Of course I was a moron and I don't
think I have any aged backups anywhere...