Many thanks for that, John. I'd already got the same error when I opened the last backup file, which is why I assumed it was more than just a corrupt data file.
I had to go back 3 versions before I found the one that loaded, but I've then been able to import all the subsequent log files. There was one transaction causing the problem, a foreign currency transaction. All now looks good. Thanks again for your help. Kind regards, Rob -----Original Message----- From: John Ralls <[email protected]> Sent: 07 April 2020 18:34 To: RobBruce <[email protected]> Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: [GNC] CRIT <gnc.pricedb> [gnc_price_unref()] last unref while price in database > On Apr 7, 2020, at 9:56 AM, RobBruce <[email protected]> wrote: > > I'm running 3.4 on Windows 10. > > Until this afternoon, it's been running very smoothly. > > On trying to load GnuCash, I got a message that there was an error > parsing the file E:\Documents\gnucash-rob\rob-gnucash.gnucash > > I did look for solutions, and opened the trace log, which contains: > > * 12:49:21 WARN <gnc.app-utils> Could not spawn perl: Failed to > execute child process (No such file or directory) > * 12:49:21 WARN <gnc.backend.xml> Could not read from compressed file > 'E:\Documents\gnucash-rob\rob-gnucash.gnucash'. The error is: > 'E:\Documents\gnucash-rob\rob-gnucash.gnucash: invalid block type' > (-3) > * 12:49:21 CRIT <gnc.backend.file.sixtp> parse failed at: > * 12:49:21 CRIT <gnc.pricedb> [gnc_price_unref()] last unref while > price in database > * 12:49:21 CRIT <gnc.pricedb> [gnc_price_unref()] last unref while > price in database <many lines deleted> > * 12:49:21 WARN <gnc.backend> [GncXmlBackend::load()] Syntax error in > Xml File E:\Documents\gnucash-rob\rob-gnucash.gnucash > > I'm not aware of having made any change to the file structure - is > this recoverable, please? It looks like you have a corrupted file. Try loading the last backup, which should be named something like rob-gnucash.gnucash.20200405154732.gnucash; the numbers in the middle are a date stamp, yyyymmddhhmmss, for the subsequent save. Depending on what work you did in the last session you may be able to recover some of it by replaying the corresponding log file with File>Import>Replay log file. You should also check the drive with `chkdsk` and `wmic diskdrive get status` to make sure that the corruption was something random like a cosmic ray and not the first sign of needing a new one. Regards, John Ralls _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list [email protected] To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
