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

[hendrik at topoi.pooq.com]

On Sun, Jul 01, 2007 at 08:48:52PM -0700, billmc cnonline.net wrote:
> 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....)

I'd definitely make anothr backup somewhere else before you try anything 
else, just in case.

I store my gnucash file in ~/accounts/2004/ ~/accounts/2005/
In 2006 I got tired of closing the books at end of year and I'm still 
using it.

It does sound like a bug, though, that gnucash creates a new 
metadata file without warning that it's clobbering an existing file 
that's not a metadata file that it just read.

-- hendrik