Error Parsing the File

[Geert Janssens]

On Wednesday 21 April 2010, jomali wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 10:18 AM, Geert Janssens
> 
> <janssens-geert at telenet.be>wrote:
> > On Wednesday 21 April 2010, Peggy Pignato wrote:
> > >  I named the file "Accounting", but I do not have a folder by that
> > > name. Please tell me which folder I should be looking in.  Thank you!
> >
> > You don't have a file named Accounting in directory C:\Users\Peggy ?
> >
> > That file should be your compressed gnucash datafile. It may not look
> > like a
> > compressed file, because it doesn't have an extension.
> >
> > If you rename (a copy) of the file to Accounting.gz, 7-Zip will recognize
> > it.
> > Note that I say 7-Zip. Windows cannot uncompress a .gz file. You will
> > need an
> > external tool for that. 7-Zip, Winzip and probably others can be used.
> >
> > Geert
> > <snip>
> 
> Might I suggest that the user not use an external zip/unzip file? Just
> change your General preferences to not compress the file in the first
>  place. The next save will be an uncompressed .xac file, which you can
>  manipulate and reopen without problems. If, when you are satisfied with
>  your changes, you want to save your data file in a compressed format, just
>  change your General preferences back.
> 
> Jomali
> 
Hi Jomali,

That's a good suggestion if you can still open your file. Unfortunately this 
whole tread started because GnuCash can't open the file anymore. To fix this, 
the file has to be edited. In order to edit, it has to be uncompressed with an 
external zip/unzip tool.

Geert