Corrupted data file

[Colin Law]

On 8 January 2016 at 09:26, Johan Pretorius <pretoriusjf at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> A friend's harddrive crashed. Most files could be recovered by a data
> recovery service, including the files in their GnuCash data folder.
>
> Gnucash fails to open the recovered file (and all its backups) saying that
> there is no suitable backend for the file.
>
> What I read after doing some Google searches makes me think that the files
> are likely to be corrupted.
>
> Is there any way to recover any of the data, or perhaps even just do an
> integrity check on the data file?

Just to check that the correct files are being tried, what is the name
of the original file and one of the backup files?

Colin