Excellent that you're back in business. What was wrong with the transaction?
Regards, John Ralls > On Apr 7, 2020, at 12:15 PM, <rgwbr...@gmail.com> <rgwbr...@gmail.com> wrote: > > 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 <jra...@ceridwen.us> > Sent: 07 April 2020 18:34 > To: RobBruce <rgwbr...@gmail.com> > Cc: gnucash-user@gnucash.org > Subject: Re: [GNC] CRIT <gnc.pricedb> [gnc_price_unref()] last unref while > price in database > > > >> On Apr 7, 2020, at 9:56 AM, RobBruce <rgwbr...@gmail.com> 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 gnucash-user@gnucash.org 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.
