gnucash in xp

[Harold]

I forgot to mention about the 
data format. When I went to saveas the default data format was xml. 
Others were available but I have never dealt with the data format in 
Linux. The others that were available are mysql, postgres. There may have been one other. Not sure.

Thanks, 

Harold



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From: Geert Janssens <janssens-geert at telenet.be>
To: Harold <hh6199 at yahoo.com>
Cc: "gnucash-user at gnucash.org" <gnucash-user at gnucash.org>
Sent: Friday, August 19, 2011 10:36 AM
Subject: Re: gnucash in xp

On vrijdag 19 augustus 2011, Harold wrote:
> Here is the trace file contents:
> 
> * 18:20:10  WARN <qof.engine> [guid_init()] only got 1100 bytes.
> The identifiers might not be very random.
> * 18:20:22  WARN <gnc.app-utils> Could not spawn perl: Failed to execute
> child process (No such file or directory) end of file (added by me)
> 
> I have already deleted Gnucash. I will re-install it and try again. Then I
> will resend a trace file if I get the error again. I have tried it more
> than once already but will try again just in case this trace file doesn't
> shed any light on the problem. In the mean time I will delete all the
> trace files pertaining to GC before re-installing.
> 
> 
I'm afraid this trace file doesn't give any details of the parse error you 
mentioned in your first mail.

You proposal is best: remove all the current trace files and start again.

I would be interested in two trace files:
1. the first one right after you have opened a backup file, ran save as and 
closed gnucash again
2. the second one after you try to open the new file and get the error 
message.

Can you also tell me in which directory (full path) you are storing your data 
file ?

Geert