[GNC] Newly saved file won't load

Colin Law clanlaw at gmail.com
Tue Oct 8 09:18:01 EDT 2019


3.0 had a number of significant bugs, though I don't know if that is one of
them. You should upgrade to 3.7 if possible

Colin

On Tue, 8 Oct 2019, 12:23 David Mills, <djmills32 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I've been using GNU cash for years and have loved it.
>
> I recently upgraded my Linux from OpenSUSE 42.3 to Leap 15.1.  From memory
> I was on GnuCash 2.6.  Now on 3.0-lp151.2.57
>
> When I open an existing file (from the past release) and resave, the saved
> file gets an error when opening.  The message is "There was an error
> parsing the file ..."
>
> Luckily I have a copy of the previous version.
>
> The file is quite large: 1.9 MB as a gnucash file and 26MB once unzipped.
>
> I have a second set of books (a different entity) that is much smaller (643
> KB) and with it I can save and re-open.
>
> I tried opening the old copy of the large file again, running a Check and
> repair and then saving.  The result is the same - it won't open.
>
> I have installed release 3.7 on a VirtualBox Windows 10 host and it is able
> to load, save and re-open the files that won't open on the OpenSUSE 3.0
> version.
>
> Is there some way to resolve the issue on Linux so that I don't have to run
> VirtualBox to update my accounting?
>
> Cheers,
>
> David.
>
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