gnucash-user Digest, Vol 134, Issue 6

[Jim Muchow]

On Sun, May 4, 2014 at 11:00 AM,  <gnucash-user-request at gnucash.org> wrote:

> From: Kevin Rutherford <kevin at rutherford-software.com>
> Subject: Gnucash upgrade not working

I performed the very same upgrade, but in my case, that progress
bar you see after reading in User Data went crazy bouncing back
and forth at a rapid clip. After a long-ish period, 10, 20? seconds,
the accounts were displayed. Everything seemed to be OK, the
accounts were all there and the numbers matched what I thought
they should be.

I had another copy of my accounts file, so I wasn't hesitant
about experimenting. I guess I assumed that new version of
GnuCash might need to upgrade the accounts file. I performed
no transactions, well, a dummy one to set the "needs to save"
flag that"un-grays" that save button. Then I saved the file and
restarted.

No problems since. So far anyway. YMMV.

> Hi,
> I've been using Gnucash 2.4.x for 6 years and been very happy with it.
> But last week I upgraded to Ubuntu 14.04, which brought with it an
> upgrade to Gnucash 2.6.1. This new version of Gnucash can read my
> accounts file, but for one particular account it won't let me add new
> transactions: After I enter the transaction details and press Return,
> the new transaction remains open, and I can then do nothing in that
> account until I have deleted that transaction.
>
> It does appear that I can enter transactions via the general ledger,
> but that's somewhat inconvenient. And of course I have no confidence
> that my accounts file remains uncorrupted.
>
> Do any of you have any ideas what might be wrong? And more
> importantly, how can I recover the situation so that I can use my
> accounts without losing data?
> Many thanks,
>      Kevin