gnucash can't find myaccounts.xac

[Jim Seymour]

On Sat, 29 Mar 2003, Linas Vepstas wrote:

> 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

My bad.  I tried again to open the file again and noticed a "directory 
unreadable or nonexitstant type" message. I backed out of the directory 
and came back in and it works now.  Thanks for the assist Linas :-)

-- 
Jim Seymour
www.wingbarscafe.com