Account tab no longer visible when I open my ledger file

[Derek Atkins]

Michael Carney <mwc-250sav at att.net> writes:

> When I do that, I am presented with an empty Accounts page, with $0
> totals in the summary bar.
>
> Since my post, I copied a saved version from April 12th to a new
> ledger name, "ledger.test" opened it successfully, accepted the
> expected scheduled transaction, and added some liability transactions
> from receipts I have. Worked great. Then, thinking my problem is
> solved, I copied the "ledger.test" back to "ledger", and tried to open
> it. Same problem -- empty Account page. I started again from the April
> 12th version, created a new ledger.test, and accepted the expected
> scheduled transaction, and re-entered the liability transactions.
> Saved. As long as I use ledger.test, things work as expected. Copy
> ledger.test to the original "ledger", and try to open it -- No
> accounts. Very strange. Is there some other file that's sensitive to
> the name of the ledger file that could be corrupted?

Yes, there are metadata files in your .gnucash/books directory that are
sensitive to the file name.  Try moving the old "ledger" file in there
out of the way.

> Thanks,
> Mike

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-derek

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