Failed to parse XML

Pablo Wolter pwolter at gmail.com
Sun Feb 19 22:05:03 PST 2017


I tried to run it with the "-v -v" but I guess that works on Linux?
I'm on Mac and nothing happens when trying them. Do I send you my XML
file to you or it is ok to send to the list? It's a ~4 Mb file.

Pablo.

On Sun, Feb 19, 2017 at 1:54 PM, Dirk Hohndel <dirk at hohndel.org> wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 19, 2017 at 09:23:41PM +0000, Pablo Wolter wrote:
>> Today I tried to download a bunch of dives from my dive computer.
>>
>> I opened Subsurface and got a red error frame at the bottom saying it
>> failed parsing my local XML  file.
>>
>> All my dives are gone. The application is empty.
>>
>> I remember a while ago I saw an email exchange about something like this
>> due a change on the internal dives storage but can't find the emails.
>>
>> Do you remember how to solve this? Yes. I have not dived in a while .....
>
> First thing to do... copy the XML file and the .bak file of the same name
> to a different directory... just to be on the safe side.
>
> Then... either run subsurface -v -v from the command line to see if you
> can make sense of what's going on, or send the XML file to some of us so
> we can take a look. Usual suspects would be Linus, Miika, and myself. I'm
> sure between the three of us we can figure out what's going on.
>
> For the record. We have every intention to have this NEVER happen.
> Subsurface is supposed to ALWAYS be able to read older files. So I'd love
> to figure out what's wrong, fix it, create a test for it... and then all
> of that will make it into 4.6.3 :-)
>
> (unless of course it's a random file corruption - we've seen those as well)
>
> Thanks
>
> /D


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