I tried to run it with the "-v -v" but I guess that works on Linux? I'm on Mac and nothing happens when trying them. Do I send you my XML file to you or it is ok to send to the list? It's a ~4 Mb file.
Pablo. On Sun, Feb 19, 2017 at 1:54 PM, Dirk Hohndel <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sun, Feb 19, 2017 at 09:23:41PM +0000, Pablo Wolter wrote: >> Today I tried to download a bunch of dives from my dive computer. >> >> I opened Subsurface and got a red error frame at the bottom saying it >> failed parsing my local XML file. >> >> All my dives are gone. The application is empty. >> >> I remember a while ago I saw an email exchange about something like this >> due a change on the internal dives storage but can't find the emails. >> >> Do you remember how to solve this? Yes. I have not dived in a while ..... > > First thing to do... copy the XML file and the .bak file of the same name > to a different directory... just to be on the safe side. > > Then... either run subsurface -v -v from the command line to see if you > can make sense of what's going on, or send the XML file to some of us so > we can take a look. Usual suspects would be Linus, Miika, and myself. I'm > sure between the three of us we can figure out what's going on. > > For the record. We have every intention to have this NEVER happen. > Subsurface is supposed to ALWAYS be able to read older files. So I'd love > to figure out what's wrong, fix it, create a test for it... and then all > of that will make it into 4.6.3 :-) > > (unless of course it's a random file corruption - we've seen those as well) > > Thanks > > /D _______________________________________________ subsurface mailing list [email protected] http://lists.subsurface-divelog.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/subsurface
