FAQ 1.10 not helping to recover reports

[Paul Stansell]

Derek,

Thanks for your advice, I retrieved both ~/.gnome/GnuCash and 
.gnucash/books and I got my reports back!

Paul Stansell


On Tue, 5 Apr 2005, Derek Atkins wrote:

> 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