On 5 November 2013 14:57, John Ralls <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Nov 5, 2013, at 6:46 AM, Colin Law <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On 5 November 2013 12:39, Colin Law <[email protected]> wrote: >>> I find today that I cannot open my compressed xml accounts file, I get >>> a parse error opening the file. I am using version 2.4.13 (on Ubuntu >>> 13.10). If I uncompress the file with gunzip it will open ok, but if >>> I I save it compressed again then again it will not reopen. >>> I can read the same compressed file ok with version 2.4.10 (on Ubuntu >>> 12.04), and if I save it with version 2.4.10 then I can re-open it >>> with version 2.4.13. >> >> In fact I see that even if I make a new trivial file and save it >> compressed then I cannot re-open it. Either something has got messed >> up in my system or an update has introduced a bug. >> > There haven't been any updates to Gnucash-2.4.13. The fact that you can fix > the problem by unzipping by hand suggests that there's a problem either with > libz on Ubuntu 13-10 or with GC's linkage to it.
In fact I see I was wrong about it failing with a trivial file. I have gone back through the backups and find that I can still open the file from earlier today but cannot open ones after a certain point, so it does seem to be related to this particular file. I have tried on another Ubuntu system running ubuntu Trusty daily build and see the same problem, so it is not related to user settings. I had a vague recollection of a similar problem reported on the forum a few weeks ago, but can't find it now. I guess you must be right, for some reason gnucash is unable to correctly unzip this particular file. Any suggestions on how to progress this further? I could send the file privately to someone if they wanted to have a look at it. Colin _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
