Problem opening KMM file

[Jack]

On 9/9/25 2:21 PM, Jack via KMyMoney-devel wrote:
> On 9/9/25 2:08 PM, Brendan Coupe via KMyMoney-devel wrote:
>> When I compile either the 5.2 or the master branch I get the 
>> following error when trying to open my file:
>>
>> Corrupted data: transaction '', split 'S0002' references unknown 
>> account id 'A000432' 
>> /usr/local/src/kmm/kmymoney-2025.09.09-11.47.31-GIT-MASTER/kmymoney/plugins/xml/mymoneyxmlreader.cpp:771
>>
>> Since my file is encrypted, the first thing I tried was decrypting 
>> the file. I got the same error. When I switch back to the version I 
>> compiled on August 21, the file opens as expected. The first time 
>> this happened was about a week ago but I didn't try decrypting the 
>> file first until today.
>>
>> Something in the past few weeks seems to have caused this problem. 
> I think this has been reported by someone else recently, but can't 
> currently find the reference. 
https://discuss.kde.org/t/kmm-5-2-1-cannot-open-file/39428
> It seems to be due to a new check that has been added recently.  What 
> you can do is grep for that account number in your data file after 
> decrypting and find what transaction contains that split.  Then open 
> that transaction in an older working version and check if the category 
> is valid.  If not, change it to a valid Category.  You may then find a 
> different transaction with the same problem, so you will need to 
> repeat the process.  Apparently at some point in the past, it was 
> possible to delete a Category without deleting or reassigning all 
> transations/splits which referred to it.