File Restoration

[Colin Law]

2009/7/14 Mike C. <subscribe307 at verizon.net>:
> I did what you suggested by moving .gnucash to another directory.  (It can't
> be renamed in Windows XP.) when I started the program it tried again to find
> the old file so I had to load the new file.  I saved it and closed the
> program.  When I tried to open it again I had the same problem even though
> the new file was listed in the book directory under .gnucash.
> I have had to replace the .gnucash directory in the past when the program
> wouldn't open at all but that is not the case this time.  I have an old
> saved .gnucash file that worked before so replaced the current file with it.
>  After I opened the program and loaded the new file I saved it and closed
> the program.  When I opened the program again I had the same problem.  After
> loading the new file again I changed some data and saved the file, then
> closed the program.  When I opened it again, success!!, the new file opened
> with the program.  I closed the program and rebooted the computer just to
> make sure it was fixed.  Failure!! I'm back where it looks for the old file
> at startup.
> This is with version 2.2.9 not the new beta release.
> Any suggestion I could try would be appreciated.
> Mike

A suggestion that may get you out of the hole, though without
understanding the underlying problem, is to make a shortcut to
gnucash.exe with a command line argument of the full path and filename
of the data file (put it in double quotes if it includes spaces, for
example "c:\whatever\my documents\gnucash\datafile". This should force
gnucash to open that file.

Colin