Startup Failure

[Mike C.]

I can't open the backup file or any other.  What I did next was install 
an old version of  ~/.gnucash that I had saved previously and now the 
program will open with the same data file that would not open before and 
the scheduled transaction is completed.  The only difference I can see 
in the .gnucash directory is that there is a desktop.ini file in the bad 
one and it is not included in the version that works.  The .gnucash 
directory that works includes books and checks directories and 
accelerator-map, expressions-2.0, saved-reports-2.0, and stylesheets-2.0 
files.  It appears that the desktop.ini file caused the problem but I am 
not sure why it is not needed now.  It definitely seems related to 
execution of the scheduled transaction.  Does anyone have any insight 
into this or is it a bug that has been identified that I couldn't fine 
in the list?
Mike


Maf. King wrote:
> On Thursday 02 July 2009 20:07:25 Mike C. wrote:
>   
>> Yes, I had a scheduled transaction that was due yesterday and was
>> entered.  I have another copy of GnuCash on my notebook that is not as
>> up to date so I  opened it today.  It seemed to work fine but the
>> scheduled transaction came up to I changed the value needed to 1 and it
>> entered.  Now that version on the notebook won't open either.  What is
>> the situation here and how do I fix it?
>> I hope you can help,
>> Mike
>>
>>     
>
> Hi Mike,
>
> Sounds like there is something wrong with the newly created SX.  Is it 
> possible that it references an old account name or something?
>
> Can you open an old backup file, (in your data dir, look for something like 
> {FILENAME}.{TIMESTAMP}.xac  (eg. myaccounts.200907011504.xac) - choose the 
> latest timestamp before you hit the problem) and don't permit the SX to be 
> created - can you see anything wrong with the template transaction accounts 
> etc.?
>
> if there is nothing obviously wrong, can you do a diff/compare between the 
> backup and broken files - the xml might suggest a clue?
>
>
> Maf.
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