Startup Failure

[Colin Law]

2009/7/4 Mike C. <subscribe307 at verizon.net>:
> 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

The desktop.ini file is just something put there by windows explorer,
it should not have an impact on gnucash.
I wonder whether it could be a file permissions problem, perhaps
somehow you have not got full access to one or more files, or perhaps
they have become write protected?

Colin