can't open gnucash file

[John Ralls]

On Oct 21, 2011, at 4:47 PM, suk wah bernstein wrote:

> last month i used gnucash the first time. imported quicken files as qif.
> entered data. reconciled. now i go in for current month's work. in 'open'
> box, there is
> 
> personal accounts qif 798.6 kb modified 9/22/2011'
> 
> click 'open' following pops up.
> 
> No suitable backend was found for
> file://Users/SukWahB/Documentss/sukwah/PersonalFinan.gnu/PersonalAccounts.qif
> 
> also tried to go to drop down menu of File and click on
> Joint Personal Checking Gnucash.gnucash
> 
> following pops up.
> 
> The file file://Users/SukWahB/Documents/sukwah/PersonalFinan.gnu/Joint
> Personal Checking.GnuCash.gnucash could not be found.
> 

The first file, PersonalAccounts.qif, is a transfer file. Gnucash can import it but can't open it.

Notice that the Gnucash file names, "Joint Personal Checking Gnucash.gnucash" and "Joint Personal Checking.Gnucash.gnucash" are different, there's an extra dot in the second one. Try renaming it with Finder to just "Joint Personal Checking.gnucash" and then opening it with File>Open (or command-O).

Regards,
John Ralls