[GNC] Can't open old GnuCash file

[Michael or Penny Novack]

I would these sorts of things before trying to reinstall older versions 
of the programs. You really want to make sure that the problem isn't one 
of these things, because if it is, an older version of the program won't 
help.

Michael D Novack

> I might be wrong, but I would expect even an old old file would not crash
> the program!
>
> First of all, I hope you made a backup of the entire data directory and put
> it aside.
>
> Second, make sure you are opening the DATA file and not one of the .log or
> backup files (backups include a string of digits indicating the date and
> time the backup was saved).
>
> Do you remember if you saved it using the default xml data format, or could
> you have possibly saved it as a sqlite database? I imagine you might not
> remember. It is possible you haven't installed the libdbd-sqlite3 package
> GnuCash needs to read sqlite. That is an easy fix and worth trying (because
> it won't affect anything if it's not needed).
>
> Could you try opening a terminal and launching gnucash there and seeing if
> you get a more helpful error message?
>
> P.S.: You are extremely likely to be able to read the old file, but it may
> require a bit of help, so let us know by reporting back to the list.
>
>
>
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