assistance with database error?

[Derek Atkins]

Hi,

I have no idea what "Open -> save" is.

What happens if you File -> Open your dataset?

-derek

On Wed, August 1, 2012 3:00 pm, Josh Quinnell wrote:
> Yes, I apologize that was just an awkward way for me to ask if there is
> another way to get the database into 2.4.10. Open -> save causes this
> problem, apparently without editing data at all. Prior I thought it had to
> do with the few hundred transactions I entered during the switch.
>
> As far as the slot tables (<slot:value type="string">), there are no dates
> below 2010, there are however some date-like strings (e.g. <slot:value
> type="string">20110223KB6241 STP614890421600003) and I'm not sure what
> they
> are...
>
> Thanks,
>
> Josh
>
> On Wed, Aug 1, 2012 at 12:29 AM, John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us> wrote:
>
>>
>> On Jul 31, 2012, at 3:00 AM, Josh Quinnell <quin0167 at umn.edu> wrote:
>>
>> > I have now manually gone through the date tags and there does not seem
>> to
>> > be any invalid data. All tags are 2009 - 2012. All prior databases
>> saved
>> > under 2.4.10 for windows share this problem. Does anyone have other
>> > suggestions or methods to import an old database into WIN 2.4.10 to
>> > circumvent this problem? Thanks
>> >
>> > Trace:
>> > * 19:59:06  WARN <qof.engine> [guid_init()] only got 1869 bytes.
>> > The identifiers might not be very random.
>> > * 19:59:30  WARN <gnc.app-utils> Could not spawn perl: Failed to
>> execute
>> > child process (No such file or directory)
>> > * 22:30:26  CRIT <qof> qof_strftime: assertion `tm' failed
>> > * 22:30:26  CRIT <gnc.import> [TransactionGetTokens()]
>> TransactionGetTokens:
>> > error, strftime failed
>>
>> Wait a minute, *import*? You don't import gnucash databases, you open
>> them
>> with File>Open. Import is for foreign files like QIF or OFX.
>>
>> Regards,
>> John Ralls
>>
>>
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