Re: Data file corruption in Kmymoney 0.9.2 (all categories lost)

> Hi everyone,
>
> I have been using Kmymoney for some years now and I find it perfect
> for keeping track both from my personal and small business records.
> You guys did a very good job on it!
>
> Unfortunately, I was recently surprised by what it seems to be a
> rather serious bug in kmymoney 0.9.2. I usually import my bank's data
> from a custom awk script I made to convert my bank's ofc file to the
> default .qif format accepted by kmymoney, and it always worked fine.
> Last time I tried though, for some reason my script wasn't associated
> to the importing profile, so nothing got imported. No big deal, I just
> went there, associated it as my input filter, imported the data to a
> specific account and went on to classify the imported transactions. To
> my surprise, all my categories were gone! The accounts are all there,
> but all asset and expense categories are completely lost, like they
> had never been created before. I can't really say the importing
> process has something to do with it, since before that I entered a
> whole month of transactions in a passive account, constantly saving
> the file.
>
> One tip I had was from executing kmymoney from the command line, it
> reported something about the file header which could explain kmymoney
> not reading the file right:
>
> kbuildsycoca running...
> kio (KIOConnection): ERROR: Header read failed, errno=104
> kio (KIOConnection): ERROR: Header has invalid size (-1)
> reading file
> start parsing file
> startDocument
> reading accounts
> reading transactions
> reading securities
> reading prices
> reading reports
> endDocument
>
> Since this file has years of data you can imagine how upset I am about
> losing it, so I would really appreciate if someone could help me or at
> least point me some documentation about the data file's internal
> format I could use to recover the categories data, if that is
> possible. Judging by the file size, it seems like all info should
> still be there, since its size is consistently larger than some
> previous backups I had. Anyway I would prefer try recovering the data
> than using the 3 month old backup, since I had restructured a lot of
> my categories since then.
>
> Thank you all!
> Claudio
>
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