Corrupted data file

[Johan Pretorius]

Hi there,

More information:

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


   - Carla personal.gnucash
   - Carla personal.gnucash.20151031145316.gnucash

*Operating system*: Windows 7 Professional
*Gnucash version*: 2.6.5 (built from git rev 23d0f79+ on 2014-12-19)
*Data folder*: C:\Users\Decisive Consulting\Documents\CARLA\MMA's Household
*Did they try saving to database*? I just confirmed - no, they never
fiddled with anything like that

Based on the thread you linked to, Tommy - I also looked at folder and file
permissions, they seem fine in that the logged-in user as full control set
up.

One strange thing that is probably an artifact of the recovery process, is
that the security settings for the folder and the file also list an
"Account Unknown (S-1-5-21-...)" that has got full control. I don't expect
that makes any difference though.

Regards,
Johan




On 06:10, Sat 09 Jan 2016 Tommy Trussell <tommy.trussell at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Jan 8, 2016 at 3:26 AM, 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?
>>
>>
> I thought the "no suitable backend" message appears when attempting to
> open a GnuCash database file (non-XML file) when the database libdbd-mysql
> or libdbd-sqlite3 or libdbd-pgsql libraries are missing. (This applies to
> linux systems, and the exact package names vary on different linux distros.)
>
> HOWEVER, a web search turned up a thread from 2014 where a Windows user
> saw the "no suitable backend" message, and it turned out he was trying to
> open a data file copied into his Windows Application directory, so the
> message indicated a permissions problem.
>
> http://lists.gnucash.org/pipermail/gnucash-user/2014-April/054141.html
>
> o What operating system is your friend running?
>
> o What versions of GnuCash were running on the old system (if known) and
> on the restored system?
>
> o How is the datafile named (does it have a .gnucash extension, for
> instance)?
>
> o What directory is the restored datafile saved in?
>
> o Is it possible your friend intentionally saved his GnuCash file to a
> database server (on the same system or elsewhere)?
>
>
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