There was an error parsing the file ...

Peter Wilkinson peter at quanglewangle.com
Mon Mar 25 16:38:19 EDT 2013


Thanks Derek: all fixed.  There were a couple of Opening Balance
transactions that were lacking <trn:date-posted> elements, so I just copied
the <trn:date-entered> elements from each transaction and renamed them.

Thanks again for prompt and helpful advice!

Regards
Peter



On Mon, Mar 25, 2013 at 5:50 PM, Derek Atkins <derek at ihtfp.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> My initial guess is that you entered in some opening balances when you
> created the file.  There is a long standing, known bug in Windows that
> causes it to create bad O-B transactions when you create an account and
> enter an O-B in the new-account dialog.  The workaround is to not use that
> functionality and to manually create the O-B as a transaction from the
> account register back to the Equity:Opening Balances account.  Alas, the
> only way to fix the errant data file is to manually fix the XML and add
> the appropriate date data.
>
> -derek
>
> On Mon, March 25, 2013 1:32 pm, Peter Wilkinson wrote:
> > I haven't searched for this error in the archives: the search page seems
> > to
> > be broken.
> >
> > Was using gnu quite happily (for about a year) when today opening a newly
> > created file I got this error message "There was an error parsing the
> file
> > file://C:\Users\peter\Documents\gnucash\pendeen2013.gnucash. " I am using
> > version GnuCash 2.4.7  svn r20813 on 2011-07-02. I have opened a copy of
> > the file in Oxygen XML editor and it looks well formed.
> >
> > Any ideas?
> >
> > The file is available for inspection but would rather send it to a
> > particular person, rather than post it on a public mailing list.
> >
> > Regards
> >
> > Peter
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