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#1 2017-01-03 14:03:33
- Amphitryon
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[Solved] GNUcash save has stopped working for XML
I recently tried opening a gnucash file I had saved in the last few days and got a message about the file being corrupt. Checking, it seems the file is short - even attempting to uncompress it with gunzip/zcat reports it as truncated.
It is definitely repeatable. Fortunately gnucash keeps backup files - if I copy one of these, open it, allow some scheduled transactions to apply and immediately save it again it write the same kind of truncated file. I am not completely sure why this has suddenly started happening but once possibility is the recent update of zlib, i.e. 1.2.9-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz.
There is a work-around to the XML saving issue by saving to SQLITE format instead.
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#2 2017-01-27 00:47:00
- Amphitryon
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Re: [Solved] GNUcash save has stopped working for XML
Since I wrote the original message there has been at least one update of zlib and now, with zlib-1:1.2.11-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz it is working again.
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#3 2017-01-27 00:52:43
- jasonwryan
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Re: [Solved] GNUcash save has stopped working for XML
Please remember to mark your thread as [Solved] by editing your first post and prepending it to the title.
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