Hi,
I am a long time user of gnucash (~ fora decade) and have used until last month
version 2.7.4. My distribution
(Gentoo) set then version 3.2 as stable so I switched to it. I can open my data
file written by 2.7.4 with
success, but as soon as I make a change a and write it back, gnucash is no
longer able to open that file and a
dialog pops up (nearly at the end of the loading process), with an error
message: "There was an error parsing
the file /home/joehni/.local/gnucash2/Finance.gc2."
When I start gnucash from the console, it will print an entry of the data file,
when the dialog appears:
<gnc:transaction version="2.0.0">
<trn:id type="guid">e1822daceb8b84988373e0df77f579cf</trn:id>
<trn:currency>
<cmdty:space>CURRENCY</cmdty:space>
<cmdty:id>EUR</cmdty:id>
</trn:currency>
<trn:date-entered>
<ts:date>2013-01-26 19:28:12 +0100</ts:date>
</trn:date-entered>
<trn:description/>
<trn:slots>
<slot>
<slot:key>date-posted</slot:key>
<slot:value type="gdate">
<gdate>201-01-02</gdate>
</slot:value>
</slot>
</trn:slots>
<trn:splits>
<trn:split>
<split:id type="guid">015fa8714ca0f972d5fd1a26ef0a42eb</split:id>
<split:reconciled-state>n</split:reconciled-state>
<split:value>0/100</split:value>
<split:quantity>0/100</split:quantity>
<split:account
type="guid">83053d3a807429e9f622ff73e9f0ef01</split:account>
</trn:split>
</trn:splits>
</gnc:transaction>
I also tried version 3.3, but got the same results. When I restore the backup
of the data file last written by
2.7.4, gnucash is able to open it. However, if it is written back after a
modification, it cannot load the file
anymore the next time.
I've decompressed the data files already and checked that the entry above is
already in the old data file.
However, the difference between the old file and the new one is exactly in that
entry (apart from a single
change to a description of a transaction required to write the data file back):
============== %< ===============
~/tmp/mem $ diff -u Finance.gc2.20181025201900. Finance.
--- Finance.gc2.20181025201900. 2018-11-05 01:19:42.197548980 +0100
+++ Finance. 2018-11-05 01:19:48.588632156 +0100
@@ -733631,9 +733631,6 @@
<cmdty:space>CURRENCY</cmdty:space>
<cmdty:id>EUR</cmdty:id>
</trn:currency>
- <trn:date-posted>
- <ts:date>1970-01-01 00:59:59 +0100</ts:date>
- </trn:date-posted>
<trn:date-entered>
<ts:date>2013-01-26 19:28:12 +0100</ts:date>
</trn:date-entered>
============== %< ===============
It seems the new version drops the date-posted entry, maybe because in the
entry above the gdata in the
slot element is invalid.
What's the best action to get my data back with version 3.x? Can I simply get
rid of that transaction or is there
somewhere else a counterpart? Or should I try to fix the gdate and adjust the
value of date-posted? How can
I identify that transaction running gnucash?
Regards,
Jörg
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