gnucash in xp

[Geert Janssens]

On vrijdag 19 augustus 2011, Harold wrote:
> I have been using Gnucash under Ubuntu for two or three years with no
> problems. So after getting a new pc because lightning got the one I was
> using, I decided to try Gnucash in my windows xp os. I installed version
> 2.4.7, reboot, start Gnucash, open a backup and make changes and do a
> saveas and rename it. Then I close and try to re-open the file and I get
> the error about parsing the file showing the path where the main file is
> located. I read the faqs about not saving the file with the same name as
> the backup that I had opened.
> 
> I noticed before I did the saveas that there was no save option. So I
> figured it would have the save option when I opened back up. Haven't been
> able to re-open the file.
> 
> 
> Has anyone else experienced this?
> 
No, I haven't experienced this yet.

To further debug this, can you list the contents of the GnuCash trace file 
from the failed GnuCash run ?
See http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Windows#Error_messages.2C_Trace_file to learn 
about trace files.

> Is there a version better in XP than 2.4.7 stable?
> 
Not that I know of.

Geert