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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