GNUCASH Data File Name Question

[Johannes Kapune]

Hi Jay,

what happens after you start GunCash and than try open file ... and 
choose your file?

What goes wrong you can normally read in the trace file.

Johannes

Am 02.11.2013 04:04, schrieb Jay Ridgley:
> Folks,
>
> I have been using gnucash for several years and the file name I have
> used is gnu-data under my home directory. That file got destroyed and
> now I am using a file I recovered from the logs (THANK GOD!).
>
> I copied that file to a file with the same name as I had been using.
> However, I have not been successful in getting the file to work. For
> some reason gnucash will not open it up or does so in an improper fashion.
>
> This is the command I am using to start gnucash:
>
> gnucash ~/gnu-data
>
> It starts up but displays a blank window.
>
> How do I recover things so that I can used the same name I have been using.
>
> The docs say to use .gnucash as an extension. But that if you have been
> using a file without the extension you can continue to use it.
>
> I am using GnuCash 2.4.10 under Ubuntu 12.04.3 LTS with all updates
> applied.
>
> Thanks,
> Jay
>