[GNC] No Suitable backend was found

[Geert Janssens]

Hmm, if you kept backup files, you could go back through previous versions to 
determine where it went wrong.
And then compare the good backup with your bad file.

It may also be useful to doublecheck the file you try to open really is an xml 
file (though probably compressed).

To do so, first check whether your copy of gnucash is configured to compress 
xml files via
Edit -> Preferences -> General -> Compress files
If that's not set, try opening the failing gnucash file with a plain text 
editor like Wordpad, Notepad+, BBEdit,... (Not with an office suite though).

If it is compressed you first have to decompress it with something like 7zip. 
You may have to change the extension before 7zip will decompress it. For 
example name your file something.gnucash.gz and then open it with 7zip.

Once decompressed you can again check whether the decompressed version looks 
like proper xml. And you could even check if gnucash will open the 
uncompressed xml file afterwards. There have been compression problems in the 
past and since you last used gnucash 2.6.7 you may be experiencing that.

Regards,

Geert

Op dinsdag 27 augustus 2019 10:50:23 CEST schreef Human:
> Hi I am using GnuCash 2.6.7 and file format is xml. I need to recover this
> file, is there anyway to do so?
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> On Tue, Aug 27, 2019 at 1:47 PM Geert Janssens <geert.gnucash at kobaltwit.be>
> 
> wrote:
> > Op maandag 26 augustus 2019 14:37:58 CEST schreef Human:
> > > Please see attached.
> > 
> > Unfortunately there isn't much data in the trace file.
> > 
> > The first line is common when you haven't installed Finance::Quote for
> > online
> > price retrieval. You can ignore that.
> > 
> > The two subsequent lines on the other hand suggest write permission issues
> > in
> > C:\Users\Maulik\.gnucash
> > Gnucash can't access expressions-2.0 and can't write a stylesheets file in
> > there.
> > But no hints as to why your file can't be read.
> > 
> > I'll note that location is only used by gnucash 2.x and older. What
> > version of
> > gnucash are you running ? And what's the file format you have chosen (xml,
> > sqlite) ?
> > 
> > Regards,
> > 
> > Geert