Upgrade to Intel-2.6.6-4, can't reopen sqlite3 backend

John Ralls jralls at ceridwen.us
Fri Apr 10 00:45:51 EDT 2015


> On Apr 9, 2015, at 4:47 PM, Richard Feldmann <REF_Buy at donet.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> Per gnucash-devel-owner, I am forwarding my problem to gnu cash-user.  I appreciate any advise you can provide.
> 
> Dick Feldmann
> 
>> Begin forwarded message:
>> 
>> From: Richard Feldmann <REF_Buy at donet.com>
>> Subject: Upgrade to Intel-2.6.6-4, can't reopen sqlite3 backend
>> Date: April 8, 2015 at 9:17:06 PM EDT
>> To: gnucash-devel at gnucash.org
>> 
>> Upgraded MAC OS-X from version 10.6 to 10.10
>> 
>> Since then Gnucash stopped loading my data.  Message: “No suitable back end was found for file:///Users…/REF$.gnucash” (I shortened the directory string to …)
>> 
>> I’ve tried upgrading to Gnucash Intel-2.6.6-4
>> I’ve upgraded to sqlite3 vsn 3.8.9.
>> 
>> I’ve tried the File Open, but the only data format option I get is “file”.  I don’t get “Database Connection”
>> 
>> To the best of my ability to search, I don’t believe I got the “libdbi” or the “libdbd-sqlite3” files in my download.  I cannot find these files on the web.
>> 
>> I’m out of ideas.  Can you help?  I’d hate to think I’ve lost all my data.  But I do still have access to the data tables through sqlite3, so if you can’t advise me how to get Gnucash linked to sqlite3, maybe you can advise me on how to dump and load my data into a “file” data format.


Yes. The problem was that I screwed up when I made the -4 bundles. I’ve uploaded -5 bundles which correct the problem.

Regards,
John Ralls




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