[Kmymoney] corrupted kmymoney file

[Allan]

On 06/01/13 19:43, Phil Dykes wrote:
> yes thanks...I can't unpack the gz file once renamed
> it comes up with an error
>
> Phil

Hmmm.  It's not something I've tried before, but I've just found that 
.kmy files can be opened in some text editors, at least in Kate, but not 
in gedit.

It's worth a try, if you can.

Allan

> On 6 January 2013 14:17, Allan <agander93 at gmail.com
> <mailto:agander93 at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     I had trouble with some of my msg getting rejected as containing a
>     virus.
>
>     The first line I quoted should have a "<" then a "?" and those two
>     reversed before and after, the second line should have a reference
>     to KMYMONEY?-FILE and the last line too.
>
>
>     Allan
>
>
>
>     -------- Original Message --------
>     Subject: Re: [Kmymoney] corrupted kmymoney file
>     Date: Sun, 06 Jan 2013 14:06:21 +0000
>     From: Allan <agander93 at gmail.com <mailto:agander93 at gmail.com>>
>     To: phil.thedykes at gmail.com <mailto:phil.thedykes at gmail.com>
>
>     On 06/01/13 11:05, Phil Dykes wrote:
>
>         Hi
>         I have been using your product for some years now with no
>         problem at all
>         this am I tried to open the kmymoney file to update some
>         accounts and
>         got the following error message:
>
>         Cannot load file /home/phil/Dropbox/Personal/__2011 onwards - june
>         2011.kmy. Reason: File was not parsable!
>
>
>         Uncaught error. Please report the details to the developers
>
>         Currency 'GBP' not found. in file
>         /build/buildd/kmymoney-4.6.3/__kmymoney/mymoney/mymoneyfile.__cpp line
>         2,410
>
>
>         [I am running version 4.6.3 under Linux Mint Mate 14]
>
>
>         This is unfortunate as I can now not access my accounts over
>         many years!
>
>
>         can you help?
>
>         thanks
>
>
>         Phil
>
>     The very first thing to do is to ensure you take frequent backups,
>     either manually or automatically.
>
>     Can you change the extension .kmy to .gz and uncompress it.  Then open
>     it in a text editor and see if it looks like a normal xml file, or just
>     rubbish.
>
>     Do you have any old kmm files you could compare with?
>
>     Look at the beginning.  It should have
>     "
>     xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"
>
>
>     Allan
>
>
>