gnucash in xp

[Harold]

Thanks so much. I will post back when I have checked it out.



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From: Geert Janssens <janssens-geert at telenet.be>
To: gnucash-user at gnucash.org; Harold <hh6199 at yahoo.com>
Sent: Saturday, August 20, 2011 11:16 AM
Subject: Re: gnucash in xp

On zaterdag 20 augustus 2011, Harold wrote:
> Sorry, my reply was not to group.
> 
> 
> ----- Forwarded Message -----
> From: Harold <hh6199 at yahoo.com>
> To: Geert Janssens <janssens-geert at telenet.be>
> Sent: Friday, August 19, 2011 11:13 AM
> Subject: Re: gnucash in xp
> 
> 
> My path where I store my data file is: C:\Documents and
> Settings\doc_holder\Gnucash. I stored it here instead of under my
> documents because I do a usb backup each time is make changes and plus I
> didn't want my Gnucash backed up to Spideroak.
> 
That's ok. As long as you don't install under .gnucash/books. That used to 
cause a lot of problems in the past.

> After re-installing version 2.4.7, rebooting, running GC and opening a
> backup, doing save as (still no save option; greyed out),
That's normal. Save will only be enabled when you have made changes to the 
file. Since you're simply opening it, you can only save as.

> then trying to
> open the new file name from my hd, I get the parsing error. I had three
> trace files:
<snip>
> 
> 3rd trace file: * 11:00:14  WARN <qof.engine> [guid_init()] only got 1100
> bytes. The identifiers might not be very random.
> * 11:00:22  WARN <gnc.app-utils> Could not spawn perl: Failed to execute
> child process (No such file or directory) * 11:00:22  CRIT <gnc.io>
> [dom_tree_handlers_all_gotten_p()] Not defined and it should be:
> trn:date-posted * 11:00:22  CRIT <gnc.io> [dom_tree_generic_parse()]
> didn't find all of the expected tags in the input * 11:00:25  WARN
> <gnc.backend> [gnc_xml_be_load_from_file()] Syntax error in Xml File
> C:\Documents and Settings\doc_holder\Gnucash\harold_jean.gnucash
> * 11:00:47  CRIT <gnc.io> [dom_tree_handlers_all_gotten_p()] Not defined
> and it should be: trn:date-posted * 11:00:47  CRIT <gnc.io>
> [dom_tree_generic_parse()] didn't find all of the expected tags in the
> input * 11:00:49  WARN <gnc.backend> [gnc_xml_be_load_from_file()] Syntax
> error in Xml File C:\Documents and
> Settings\doc_holder\Gnucash\harold_jean.gnucash
> 
For some reason the newly saved file is missing some date records (trn:date-
posted). These records are available in the original backup file though, 
because that one can be opened with no problems.

I can only imagine that the dates in the original backup file are considered 
invalid by Windows and hence removed during the save as action.

Could you check if your original data file has posted dates older than 1970 ?

For that you will have to unzip the file (for example with 7-zip), which will 
result in an xml file. You can search through this file with any decent text 
editor (not notepad, but wordpad will do) for any dates predating 1970.

The background: linux has a different start date from Windows. On linux the 
oldest valid date is somewhere in 1969, while in windows this is in 1970. So 
if for some reason a date older than 1970 got inserted in your data file, 
Windows would not be able to properly parse it and hence not rewrite it to the 
file.

Geert