account disappears

[Derek Atkins]

"Yvan Strahm" <yvan.strahm at gmail.com> writes:

> Hello All,
>
> I am new to gnucash, so sorry if this question was already asked and
> answered ;-) ( I searched the archive..)
>
> I saved my accounts file (bank) on a usb stick, after saving the changes and
> closing gnucash the original name (bank) disappears and just the
> bank.xxxxxxx.log remains. If I try to reopen gnucash it stays in the loading
> data status.

What do you mean by "disappears"?
Can you show the directly listing before and after?

> This behaviour is not consistent and i am lauching gncash like that ( most
> of the times)
>
> $ gnucash bank
>
> Am I doing something wrong?

Are you sitting in the "current" directory of the USB stick
when you run this command?

> gncash version is GnuCash 2.2.5 Built 2008-05-30 from r17141M and this
> happens on xubuntu (8.04) and macosx (10.5.3)
>
> gnucash complains about a missing lock file, could it be the cause?

Maybe?

> Thanks for your help
>
> yvan

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-derek

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