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[Human]

I had a backup and got back to that which opened fine in v3.6. I am not sure why that file got corrupted. 

Thanks for all the help. I got upgraded as a result.

On 27 Aug 2019, 4:13 PM, at 4:13 PM, Geert Janssens <geert.gnucash at kobaltwit.be> wrote:
>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