Error parsing file on OS X

[Derek Atkins]

Hi,

Parameswaran S Prem <premps at sg.ibm.com> writes:

> Hi Subramanian,
>
> Thanks for the tip.
>
> As suggested, I tried to open older versions of the file.  They also gave 
> me the same error.   The oldest version I tried was of 4th Aug.   I 
> couldn't open it.  I have used GnuCash many times between 4th Aug and last 
> week.  It was working ok. 
>
> Should I try to re-install GnuCash ?
>
> With best regards,

I don't think you need to re-install GnuCash.  But you might want to
take a close look at your data file.  The parse error seems to be after
a transaction with a date/time of Sun, Aug 25 08:02:23 2013, as you can
see from this portion of the trace file:

* 17:08:52  INFO <gnc.engine> [xaccTransSetDateInternal] addr=0x417cb60 set date to 1377388943.000000000 Sun Aug 25 08:02:23 2013
* 17:08:52  INFO <gnc.engine> [trans_cleanup_commit] get rid of rollback trans=0x417ccf8
* 17:08:52  INFO <gnc.engine> [trans_cleanup_commit] get rid of rollback trans=0x417cf18
* 17:08:52  CRIT <gnc.backend.file.sixtp> parse failed at:
* 17:08:52  WARN <gnc.backend> [gnc_xml_be_load_from_file()] Syntax error in Xml File /Users/premps/Documents/SMA/GNUCash/2013Accounts.gnucash

I would recommend that you look in your data file for the transaction
with this date/time stamp, and then look at the rest of that transaction
and the following transaction in the datafile.  That should give you a
clue as to what might be going on.

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-derek

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