File Restoration

[Mike C.]

Colin Law wrote:
> 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.
>   
That is a good suggestion.  If the problem comes up again that is what I 
will do.  I am a little uneasy with a financial program that continues 
to act in unexplained ways.  At least there seems to be no corruption of 
the data.
Mike
> Colin
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