Corrupted a file now get "no suitable backend found"

[Dennis Shimer]

Right, obviously lesson learned.  However let me expand a bit.  I was
thinking that since this is just a text file, I could open it in an editor
and change some errant text in the account names so thats what I did.  I'd
like to know the error in my logic. Is there some kind of connection that I
don't know about that goes beyond gnucash reading that XML file when
opening? Is there something in the account name (or other account)
attributes that are off limits to changing outside the gnucash environment?

In this case I'm on a 64bit Linux and edited the file with vi if that
matters.


On Sat, Nov 16, 2013 at 8:22 AM, Johannes Kapune <listen at kapune.de> wrote:

> Am 16.11.2013 14:09, schrieb Dennis Shimer:
>
>  I have a file that I made several errors in account names.  I thought it
>> would be easier to open the file in an external editor and make the
>> changes.  After I did that I went to reopen the file and got a error
>> "No suitable backend was found for
>> file:///home/dennis/Desktop/FileName.gnucash."
>> All my other files still work fine so I must have done something with the
>> manual edit on the file.  It was fairly simple changes to the account
>> names
>> an codes.  Is there any way to recover this file?
>>
> you take your backup
>
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