assistance with database error?

[John Ralls]

On Aug 1, 2012, at 12:00 PM, Josh Quinnell <quin0167 at umn.edu> 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. 

The problem with that claim is that the error message is from the import code, so you did in fact try to import the database. That won't work. Please try again with File>Open. If you get an error from that, please do paste in the last 10 - 20 lines of gnucash.trace along with any messages you get on the console.

Regards,
John Ralls

> 
> 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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