Please Help!!!! Cannot open my gnucash file!
Derek Atkins
warlord at MIT.EDU
Mon Nov 23 12:05:12 EST 2009
JP,
You should file a bug with Ubuntu.
-derek
JP Briggs <jp.briggs at gmail.com> writes:
> Well I'm back up and running. My thoughts are that the upgraded version
> somehow overwrote my data file with this gconf referencing file when I tried
> to load the data file in Gnucash. This was a repeatable problem, since I'm
> running on a virtual machine, I could roll back to my previous Ubuntu version.
> Once rolled back, if I tried to open the data file (shared folder on my host
> machine, so it wasn't rolled back) I would get the same Unable to parse XML
> file. So it appears that the upgraded version was overwriting my data file.
>
> What I've done to finally fix it, is to install a fresh copy of Ubuntu 9.10 on
> a new guest VBox machine, install Gnucash, and then open the data file from
> the shared folder. Now it opens just fine. Seems like it was some kind of bug
> in the upgrade process.
>
> I'd be interested to hear if anyone else experienced problems with upgrading.
>
> Thanks,
>
> JP
>
> On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 11:33 AM, Derek Atkins <warlord at mit.edu> wrote:
>
> JP Briggs <jp.briggs at gmail.com> writes:
>
> [snip]
> > > 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
> [snip]
> > jp at Macbuntu:~/Documents/gnucash$ cat JPandRobyn | head
> > <?xml version="1.0"?>
> > <gconf>
> > <entry name="file0" mtime="1258650368" type="string">
> > <stringvalue>/home/jp/Documents/gnucash/JPandRobyn</stringvalue>
> > </entry>
> > </gconf>
> > <?xml version="1.0"?>
> > <gconf>
> > <entry name="sort_order" mtime="1256567967" type="string">
> > <stringvalue>ascending</stringvalue>
>
> This isn't a GnuCash data file. This looks like a GConf data file. So
> this begs the question of what's going on, but it sounds like it might
> an Ubuntu 9.10 bug.
>
> What happens if you move your data file somewhere else? I.e., instead
> of putting it into ~/Documents, saving your data file somewhere like
> ~/GnuCash-Files or some other new directory?
>
> > -JP
>
> -derek
>
> PS: Sorry I didn't respond to this earlier, I was offline all weekend
> and I'm just finally getting back to my email.
> --
> Derek Atkins, SB '93 MIT EE, SM '95 MIT Media Laboratory
> Member, MIT Student Information Processing Board (SIPB)
> URL: http://web.mit.edu/warlord/ PP-ASEL-IA N1NWH
> warlord at MIT.EDU PGP key available
>
--
Derek Atkins, SB '93 MIT EE, SM '95 MIT Media Laboratory
Member, MIT Student Information Processing Board (SIPB)
URL: http://web.mit.edu/warlord/ PP-ASEL-IA N1NWH
warlord at MIT.EDU PGP key available
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