Error parsing the file

[John Ralls]

On Nov 3, 2013, at 1:57 AM, nickchua90 <nick_chua1990 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I am so sorry to inconvenience all of you, but I require some help in fixing
> my GNU file. 
> 
> Currently, when I attempt to open my file, I see this error:
> 
> "There was an error parsing the file
> file:///Users/Nicholas/Desktop/Financial Documents/Personal
> Finances.gnucash"
> 
> I've tried searching the web but was unable to resolve this problem, partly
> due to the fact that the solutions I found were for Windows.
> 
> Some background information - I'm using GnuCash 2.4.13 on OS X 10.9.
> 
> Can someone kindly help me with this matter?
> Thank you very much.

That usually means that your file has gotten corrupted. There will be several backups in the same directory, called ‘Personal Finances.2013…gnucash, where the 2013… bit is a timestamp. Try opening the latest one of those. You will probably have to redo some work.

Regards,
John Ralls