gnucash can't find myaccounts.xac

[Linas Vepstas]

On Sat, Mar 29, 2003 at 04:27:12PM -0500, Jim Seymour was heard to remark:
> Hi All,
> 	Recently had to change my home directory name from Jim to jim to 
> eliminate some mail problems I was having.  I have not been able to get 
> gnucash 1.8.1 to find and load myaccounts.xac since this change. When I 
> try file, open and select the file myaccounts.xac I get the following 
> error:
> 
> The file /home/jim/.gnucash/data/ is empty.

You may want to  rename/move the files in /home/jim/.gnucash/books
(I beleive it should be safe to delete these but I'm not sure)

This is a gnucash bug, the filename should have followed the unix convention
~/.gnucash/whatever for homedir

--linas

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