Moving from gnucash 1.8 to 2.0: startup error: "can't parse the URL"

[Derek Atkins]

You can save it anywhere you want, but you shouldn't store it in
GnuCash's metadata directory, ~/.gnucash

-derek

Quoting "billmc cnonline.net" <billmc at cnonline.net>:

> See my comments below......
>
> On 7/1/07, Derek Atkins <warlord at mit.edu> wrote:
>>
>> The definitive answer is that you should never have saved your datafile
>> there.
>
>
> I saved the data where  gnucash wanted to save the data. I didn't pick that
> location. My initial email had an error in it. The data was stored in
> ~/.gnucash/books/FirstTech.  My bad, and my apologies. (But even this
> seems to be wrong, based on your comments later....)
>
> In 2.0.x gnucash changed how it stored metadata.  In 1.8 and prior
>> it would store the metadata for /path/to/datafile in
>> ~/.gnucash/books/<encoded-path-to-datafile> but as of 2.0 it changed
>> to storing the metadata as ~/.gnucash/books/datafile
>>
>> What this means is that if you erroneously stored your data in
>> ~/.gnucash/books then as of 2.0 gnucash would overwrite that with
>> the metadata.
>>
>> YOU SHOULD NEVER STORE YOUR DATA IN ~/.gnucash
>
>
> Well, where is the data supposed to be saved if not in ~/.gnucash/books/?
>
> I have the data backed up and can copy to the appropriate location.
> Where is it supposed to live?
>
> Bill Mc.
>



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