I don't profess to have any great ideas, but I see from the one screenshot that your file opens, but appears to be empty, and I see from the other that you have numerous large log files (9mb or so) on every day of the display. Many of them appear to be only a few days old.
Personally, my log files are very small (measured in kilobytes, not megabytes), so I am curious what you have been doing to get such large files. David T. P.S. -- I can't imagine how you ended up using a development version of GnuCash, and am sad to hear you've been using it all these years. On Oct 20, 2022, 2:05 PM, at 2:05 PM, Rosepetals <pogichi...@gmail.com> wrote: >Hi, > >Yes it was silly of me. I recall years ago checking if I could update >to a >newer version but the official site said it was not advised. Then I >checked >recently and it said yes it was possible so I went on my merry way >thinking >it would be more streamlined. > >I may have a backup from 2 years ago on version 2.3.4 but of course >that >would mean I wouldn’t have the recent 2 years of transactions. > >The file type is simply File so it may be XML but upon opening it in >Notepad it mentions SQLite among the garbled text. > >I’ll try the trace tonight. For now I’ve left it running on 4.12 for >about >30 mins and no result in opening the file as shown in the pic below. >I’ve >reinstalled 2.3.4 and tried opening the file but it’s stuck on reading. >Will leave this for a while. > >Thank for your reply. > > >On Thu, 20 Oct 2022 at 4:12 pm, David Cousens ><davidcousen...@gmail.com> >wrote: > >> >> As Adrien pointed out anytime you do an upgrade of GNuCash you should >> ALWAYS >> make a backup copy of the data file before starting the upgrade and >keep >> it at >> least until everything is working. It is a good practice to regularly >make >> a >> backup copy of your data file in any case, preferrably to another >computer, >> network storage or a cloud (online) storage, usb stick etc. If you >have >> problems >> then you can always copy (not move) the file from your backup to your >data >> directory and start again. Are you using the xml file (a text file) >or an >> actual database backend? >> >> The datafile format sometimes has to be changed to accomodate new >features >> and >> fix some bugs. If such changes occur it is usually when changing from >the >> last >> version of a major series to the first version of the next. Version >4.x >> will >> assume that the file has already been upgraded from version 2 to >version >> 3. Each >> new major version of GnuCash includes a procedure for updating the >> datafile the >> first time it is run with a higher version. >> >> As well as changes in the datafile itself, there are sometimes >changes in >> the >> locations where stored reports and user preference data etc are >located. >> These >> are usually translated by the installation procedure for the first >install >> of a >> higher major version (2->3->4). The locations are also different on >> different >> operating >systems.https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Configuration_Locations >> has >> details of the locations for various versions on Linux/Windows/Mac. >The >> page can >> be hard to read but there are some diagrams accessed form links about >> halfway >> down the page >> >> Not sure how you can recover without a backup of the original file. >> >> With a 30Mb file it may take some time to convert the datafile at >startup. >> GnuCash will be unresponsive while this is taking place so don't >assume it >> has >> stopped/crashed - use the task manager >> >(https://www.howtogeek.com/405806/windows-task-manager-the-complete-guide/) >> to >> check that it is no longer runnning as Adrien suggested and if so let >it >> run to >> completion or until it actually crashes. >> >> If GnuCash is actually crashing, i.e. it stops running completely, >then >> generating a trace file and stack trace file as described in >> https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Tracefile and posting them here may >help in >> working out if your file can be fixed and how. >> >> If you can get your datafile to open, before doing anything else run >the >> Actions->Check & Repair->All transactions from the menu. >> >> Hope this helps. >> >> >> >> On Wed, 2022-10-19 at 23:11 +1100, Rosepetals wrote: >> > Hi all, >> > >> > I’m running Windows 11. >> > >> > I was running Gnucash 2.3.4 for years and finally decided to >upgrade to >> the >> > latest stable release of 4.12 so I can export to a spreadsheet. >> > >> > The setup needed to uninstall 2.3.4 which went fine and then 4.12 >> finished >> > installing. >> > >> > I opened Gnucash 4.12 and opened my Gnucash database. It notified >me I >> > needed to upgrade the database to the new version which worked fine >and I >> > was able to access all my data. I made a few entries and closed >Gnucash >> > without any issues. >> > >> > Later I opened Gnucash again but this time it didn’t auto open the >> database >> > and I'm left with a blank screen. I proceed to locate and open the >> database >> > but after waiting for it to load, nothing appears. I try to load it >> > manually in other ways but eventually Gnucash crashes. >> > >> > If it helps, the database is 30MB in size. >> > >> > Please help. 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