My Skrooge file now asks for a password that that was never set.

I created a Skrooge file in 1.6 on Windows originally.
I then installed 1.7.1 from the ppa on Kubuntu 13.04 and made changes to the file without any issues.
The next day I tried to open the file in 1.7.1 and it asked for password.

The file size is not zero bytes.
I followed the following steps in the console:
1-export SKGTRACE=255
2-skrooge --nofork > traces.txt
and it would still ask for a password.

The contents of the traces.txt file are:
##WARNING: PRAGMA journal_mode=MEMORY
## returns :database disk image is malformed Unable to execute statement

The messages I get when I try to open the file are:
"This file seems to be protected. Please enter the password."
-I enter nothing and click "OK"
"[ERR-5]: Failed to open 'media/sf_VMShare/HouseHoldFinances2013.skg'."
-if I click "Continue" nothing happens.
-if I click "History" the following message shows:
"[ERR-5]: Failed to open 'media/sf_VMShare/HouseHoldFinances2013.skg'."
"[ERR-3]: No database defined"

I tried opening the .old file and it also asked for a password.

I do not want to send the file because of the sensitive contents.

Thank you for your help,
James

jamesbr wrote:The file size is not zero bytes.

Skrooge requests a password if the document is not recognized as a valid Skrooge file.

To be sure, could you move your document on a local disk and try an open?

I moved it to the desktop of the Kubuntu machine and it still asks for a password.
The error messages are the same except the path is different.

James

I don't understand why the path is not correct.
You have:
media/sf_VMShare/HouseHoldFinances2013.skg

You should have this:
/media/sf_VMShare/HouseHoldFinances2013.skg

Is it the same in local?

Could you try this command line?
skroogeconvert --in /media/sf_VMShare/HouseHoldFinances2013.skg --out /tmp/test.csv

I typed the path incorrectly, there is a slash in front of "media".

I ran the convert as you requested and this is the output:
################################################
## Import parameters
##import_by_load=Y
##password=
################################################
## Imported file:file:///media/sf_VMShare/HouseHoldFinances2013.skg
##WARNING: PRAGMA journal_mode=MEMORY
## returns :database disk image is malformed Unable to execute statement
[ERR-12]: database disk image is malformed Unable to execute statement
[ERR-10011]: PRAGMA journal_mode=MEMORY
################################################
## FAILED
################################################

You said that Skrooge will ask for a password if it does not recognize the file type. Would it do that also if the file was corrupted?
The setup that I have is a Windows 7 computer with a Kubuntu 13.04 virtual machine (using VirtualBox). The directory /media/sf_VMShare is how Kubuntu mounts a directory that is hosted on Windows but VirtualBox makes it accessible to Kubuntu. I am wondering if there may have been a glitch that corrupted the Skrooge file when I shutdown Kubuntu.

jamesbr wrote:I typed the path incorrectly, there is a slash in front of "media".

I ran the convert as you requested and this is the output:
################################################
## Import parameters
##import_by_load=Y
##password=
################################################
## Imported file:file:///media/sf_VMShare/HouseHoldFinances2013.skg
##WARNING: PRAGMA journal_mode=MEMORY
## returns :database disk image is malformed Unable to execute statement
[ERR-12]: database disk image is malformed Unable to execute statement
[ERR-10011]: PRAGMA journal_mode=MEMORY
################################################
## FAILED
################################################

You said that Skrooge will ask for a password if it does not recognize the file type. Would it do that also if the file was corrupted?

Yes.
Your file seems to be corrupted.

jamesbr wrote:The setup that I have is a Windows 7 computer with a Kubuntu 13.04 virtual machine (using VirtualBox). The directory /media/sf_VMShare is how Kubuntu mounts a directory that is hosted on Windows but VirtualBox makes it accessible to Kubuntu. I am wondering if there may have been a glitch that corrupted the Skrooge file when I shutdown Kubuntu.

This could explain why the file is corrupted.
But, I don't understand why your are not able to open the .old file which is a copy of the previous version.

The .old file has the same modified date and time as the .skg file. The .old file size is smaller though.

Just for information, I created a new version of Skrooge (1.7. without password panel displayed in case of corrupted file.
For ubuntu, this version is available in my beta ppa:
http://skrooge.org/ubuntu_installation