Mac OSX "error parsing the file"--I need help!

[Derek Atkins]

Geert Janssens <geert.gnucash at kobaltwit.be> writes:

> On Tuesday 23 December 2014 13:51:08 De Clarkson wrote:
>> When I tried to open the file outside of the application, that's when
>> I was clicking on the .gnucash file, results above.  If I open
>> Gnucash and go to File>Open and choose one of my recent .gnucash
>> files…
>> 
>> it opened!!
>> 
>> I can't believe the fix was that easy.  My window didn't open with the
>> default Account tabs, but it did open with all my accounts (at a
>> cursory glance) there.
>> 
>> Wow.  You're smart, and I'm not!  Thank you!
>> 
>> P.S.  Any idea why that worked and the rest of it didn't?
>> 
> Yes - this is a known bug in the OS X version of GnuCash. On OS X you
> can't double-click on a
> gnucash data file in the finder to open it. GnuCash will open but it
> will not know you double-
> clicked on a file.

The other possibility is that De was (is?) hitting the gzip bug (OP said
2.4.13, which IIRC had not fixed that, yet).

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-derek

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