Can't open datafile, opening a verbatim copy works

Maf King maf at chilwell.net
Mon Jun 6 05:44:21 EDT 2011


On Monday 06 Jun 2011 10:00:04 Sandro Santilli wrote:
> As crazy as it may sound, opening my gnucash file gives me an error,
> While opening a _verbatim_ copy works:
> 
>  $ cp budget.gnucash budget.gnucash.other
>  $ gnucash budget.gnucash
>   ERROR: In procedure read:
>   ERROR: Unknown # object: #\<
>  $ gnucash budget.gnucash.other
>   - ALL FINE -
> 
> There's no dot-file in the directory containing those files.
> Version of gnucash:
> 
>  GnuCash 2.2.9
>  Built 2010-03-23 from r17949M
> 
> What can be changing the interpretation of the file based on
> its filename ?
> 
> Thanks in advance.
> 
> --strk;

Hi,

Possibly, you have some sort of open report in the base file, which isn't in 
the copy.  

I suggest you move ~/.gnucash/books/budget.gnucash[.gcm] out of the way and 
try the original file again.

HTH,
Maf.




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