Startup Failure

[Mike C.]

No, I am not keeping the data file in ~/.gnucash.  I have looked at the 
problem in more detail and am just more confused.  There are some 
differences in the accelerator-map file in .gnucash when I did a compare 
with most but not all related to the scheduled transaction.  I tried 
putting each of the non-working .gnucash files in the working folder and 
it kept working but when I replaced the whole folder it quit working.  
Next I generated a scheduled transaction for yesterday to duplicate the 
problem but after it was executed everything continued to work fine so 
maybe it is not related to the scheduled transaction.  Since I don't 
know what is causing the problem it probably wouldn't do any good to 
post any files.  The .ini file only has 3 short lines 
([.ShellClassInfo], IconFile=%SystemRoot%\system32\SHELL32.dll, 
IconIndex=13) and the verison of .gnucash that works has no .ini file.  
No, deleting the .ini file from the version that doesn't work does not 
solve the problem.
All I can say for sure is that when the program won't start, replacing 
.gnucash folder with an old version that works solves the problem.
I'll try to isolate the problem further when it happens again.
Thanks for your interest,
Mike 

Maf. King wrote:
> On Friday 03 July 2009 23:15:57 Mike C. wrote:
>   
>> 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
>>
>>     
>
>
> Hi Mike,
>
> Sorry, I don't know anything about ini files.   Do you have the old (broken) 
> one still, maybe if you posted it someone else may have some insight.
>
> Although, I will ask if you are keeping your data file in ~/.gnucash?  That is 
> considered to be a bad idea, apparently, and can lead to data loss.
>
> Cheers,
> Maf.
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