FAQ 1.10 not helping to recover reports

[Derek Atkins]

The old reports are defined in a combination of ~/.gnome/GnuCash and
~/.gnucash/books/<BOOK-DATA-PATH>.  You need both files to agree upon
the set of "open tabs" for the reports to get restored.

Most likely your best bet at this point is to just re-create the
reports.  Unless you have a saved copy of ~/.gnome/GnuCash as well, in
which case you could put that file back in place and then (if the data
file location changed) hand-edit the file to match the new file name.

Sorry, the configuration is pretty fragile.  Blame the
developers-of-old that decided to do it this way...

Good Luck,

-derek

Paul Stansell <ps at ph.ed.ac.uk> writes:

> Hello,
>
> I recently changed from gnucash-1.8.7 to gnucash-1.8.11 (due to an
> upgrade from fedora1 to fedora3) and now I can't see any of my old reports
> in gnucash.
>
> I am aware of the question 1.10 in the FAQ which explains how to rename a 
> data file and recover it's reports, but it's not working for me in this 
> case.
>
> If I start afresh with:
>
>   rm -rf ~/.gnucash
>   gnucash ~/accounts/personal/money.xac
>     # save and exit
>
> As expected, no reports were displayed and this does creates a new 
> ~/.gnucash directory with the appropriate file in
>
>   ~/.gnucash/books/%2Fhome%2Fps%2Fadmin%2Faccounts%2Fpersonal%2Fmoney.xac
>
> This has exactly the same name as that in my old saved ~/.gnucash.safe
> directory so I copy the old one over the new one:
>
>   cp ~/.gnucash.safe/books/%2Fhome%2Fps%2Faccounts%2Fpersonal%2Fmoney.xac \
>     ~/.gnucash/books/.
>
> But restarting "gnucash ~/accounts/personal/money.xac" still shows me no
> reports.  On exiting the file
> ~/.gnucash/books/%2Fhome%2Fps%2Faccounts%2Fpersonal%2Fmoney.xac is now
> very different from the original one but it still seems to contain lots of
> report information which is not used or displayed.
>
> The file name in ~/.gnome/GnuCash has not changed so I shouldn't need to 
> edit that.
>
> Can anyone tell me how to get my old reports back?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Paul Stansell
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