[GNC] Unable to open GnuCash file: "No suitable backend was found for <FILE>."

Paul Feakins paul at antropy.co.uk
Fri Jul 14 03:31:16 EDT 2023


>> Tomer,
>>
>> Good that you sorted it. Note though that if it's gzip-compressed 
>> it's an XML file, not a sqlite3 database. Does `file` on the 
>> apparently corrupted gnucash file claim that it's a sqlite3 database?
>>
>> Regards,
>> John Ralls
>>
>>
> When I use the `file` command on the corrupted file, it just reports 
> it as "data". It's a binary file, but not recognized as being in Gzip 
> format.
>
> ~T
>
If you're talking about the ".gnucash" file then just add ".tar" and 
unzip it. It's only tarred, not gzipped.

It's definitely an XML file, I do lots of stuff with it programmatically 
in PHP.

Paul.



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