Corrupted a file now get "no suitable backend found"

[Dennis Shimer]

Good to know, I thought all I did was change some characters in the name,
for example I was putting a code in the name like 100.102 then put the same
number in the account code so I just changed something like the 102 to 202
in both places (name and code).  But I have kind of a wonky keyboard on my
laptop and vi is pretty sensitive to errant keystrokes,l maybe I missed
something.


On Sun, Nov 17, 2013 at 9:42 AM, Geert Janssens
<janssens-geert at telenet.be>wrote:

>  On Sunday 17 November 2013 09:12:59 Dennis Shimer wrote:
>
> > 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?
>
> >
>
> I don't think so. It should have been ok to edit the account names. Unless
> your changes would introduce character that should normally be escaped
> inside xml. Characters like '<' and '>' are obvious examples, but there are
> more (I don't know them all).
>
>
>
> Geert
>