opening a set of accounts from another computer

[Maf. King]

On Saturday 11 July 2009 04:29:07 Paul Schwartz wrote:
> I think that it is possible that the Linux view of the volume has a
> different name. If you open your file viewer in Linux [not sure what
> Xandros uses], what path do you take to get to the place where the data
> file is?
>
> Paul Schwartz

It is also possible that the colon isn't being handled properly somewhere.  As 
a test, can you copy your data file into a directory on your desktop, for 
example, and try to open it from there?

Maf.


>
> --- On Fri, 7/10/09, Bob Thomson <bthomson at web.ca> wrote:
> > From: Bob Thomson <bthomson at web.ca>
> > Subject: opening a set of accounts from another computer
> > To: gnucash-user at lists.gnucash.org
> > Date: Friday, July 10, 2009, 12:17 PM
> > I've been using Gnucash for Windows
> > (in Vista) and until I had an EEE PC
> > crash in May, was successfully using the same data set on
> > both machines.
> > Now I've finally managed to get Gnucash 2.2.4 running on
> > the EEE PC (701
> > - Xandros Linux) but can't get it to open the current data
> > from the
> > Windows version (2.2.9). I get an error saying "Can't parse
> > the URL
> > /media/D:/gnucash/gnucash_bob.", where gnucash_bob is the
> > latest version
> > of the Windows accounts on an SD memory card which is seen
> > as drive D:
> > on the EEE PC. I've tried extracting the file from
> > gnucash_bob as well
> > but this doesn't work either.
> >
> > Can anyone help me? (I'm a complete Linux newbie so please
> > keep that in
> > mind with any instructions.)
> >
> > Bob Thomson
> > Ottawa, Canada
> >
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