account disappears

[Yvan Strahm]

On Tue, Jul 1, 2008 at 5:36 PM, Derek Atkins <warlord at mit.edu> wrote:

> "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"?


vanishes ;-)
only the .log and .xac related files remains on the volume. here the file is
called dnbnor

>
> Can you show the directly listing before and after?
>

Before:
total 7068
-rwxrwxrwx  1 yvan  staff       0 Jul  1 22:03 list_before
-rwxrwxrwx  1 yvan  staff   82031 Jul  1 00:58 dnbnor
-rwxrwxrwx  1 yvan  staff     170 Jul  1 00:44 dnbnor.20080701004440.log
-rwxrwxrwx  1 yvan  staff     192 Jul  1 00:44 dnbnor.20080701004403.log
-rwxrwxrwx  1 yvan  staff     170 Jul  1 00:44 dnbnor.20080701004247.log
-rwxrwxrwx  1 yvan  staff     170 Jul  1 00:42 dnbnor.20080701004239.log
-rwxrwxrwx  1 yvan  staff     214 Jul  1 00:42 dnbnor.20080701004215.log.
.
.
.
.
.

After:
total 6944
-rwxrwxrwx  1 yvan  staff       0 Jul  1 22:06 list_after
-rwxrwxrwx  1 yvan  staff     170 Jul  1 22:05 dnbnor.20080701220546.log
-rwxrwxrwx  1 yvan  staff     810 Jul  1 22:05 dnbnor.20080701220514.log
-rwxrwxrwx  1 yvan  staff   14764 Jul  1 22:03 list_before
-rwxrwxrwx  1 yvan  staff     170 Jul  1 00:44 dnbnor.20080701004440.log
-rwxrwxrwx  1 yvan  staff     192 Jul  1 00:44 dnbnor.20080701004403.log
-rwxrwxrwx  1 yvan  staff     170 Jul  1 00:44 dnbnor.20080701004247.log
-rwxrwxrwx  1 yvan  staff     170 Jul  1 00:42 dnbnor.20080701004239.log
-rwxrwxrwx  1 yvan  staff     214 Jul  1 00:42 dnbnor.20080701004215.log
.
.
.
.


> > 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?
>

yes,

$/opt/local/bin/gnucash dnbnor



> > 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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