Startup Failure

[Mike C.]

Derek Atkins wrote:
> "Mike C." <subscribe307 at verizon.net> writes:
>
>   
>> 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
>>     
>
> The desktop.ini wouldn't be it.   Did you compare the contents of the
> other files between the working and non-working versions?  Did you
> compare the contents of the accelerator-map, saved-reports, etc. files?
>   

There are some differences in the accelerator-map that appear related to reports and scheduled transactions.  There were no saved reports in the working folder.  I replaced both of these files from the non-working folder to the working one and everything worked fine.

> I would guess the saved-reports, but it could be something else.
>
> Another thing to look at would be the files under ~/.gnucash/books and
> compare those files between the working and non-working versions.
>   
I moved the data file I was using from the non-working to the working 
file and it worked fine.  It appears that there is some file or 
attribute in the .gnucash folder that I am not seeing that is different 
between the two folders.  As I stated above the .gnucash directory that 
works includes books and checks folders, and accelerator-map, 
expressions-2.0, saved-reports-2.0, and stylesheets-2.0 files.
Mike
> Note that by compare I don't just mean existance..  I mean look at the
> contents and compare the contents of the files.
>
> Thanks,
>
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> -derek
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