cannot read old files

Derek Atkins warlord at MIT.EDU
Tue Sep 21 23:14:21 EDT 2004


Guido Milanese <gmilanese at mclink.it> writes:

>> What version of gnucash?  Make sure you've got 1.8.9.
>> Also, you may need to run with --nofile and then Edit ->
>> Preferences -> Scheduled Transactions and turn off
>> the SX autorun feature.
>
> Solved! Thanks a lot. The version is in fact 1.8.8 -- the one that came with Mandrake 10.0. Should I upgrade? Anyway, the trick was definitely the --nofile option and turning off the autorun feature. 
> But turning it off, is autorun still effective in some way?

No, when you turn it off, SXes will not run automatically
when you start GnuCash.  This is a known bug.  If you upgrade
to 1.8.9 you may solve this problem.

-derek
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