[GNC] Gnucash 3.0 fails to launch on Windows 10

[Peter Jackson]

Thank you for responding.

I am doubtful that any of the conditions below apply. After I launch
gnucash.exe, I can't see it running in Task Manager.

I'll just stick with 2.6.20

Regards

Peter

On 10 April 2018 at 04:14, John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us> wrote:

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> > On Apr 8, 2018, at 12:02 AM, Peter Jackson <jackson at fastmail.net> wrote:
> >
> > Good Morning,
> > I use Windows 10 build 16299 and am a happy user of Gnucash 2.6.20.
> > I have installed Gnucash 3.0 three times.
> > Each time after installation, Gnucash 3.0 has failed to launch.
> > My datafile is 18MB.
> > Any suggestions please?
>
> It’s not the size, it’s the content.
>
> So far there are 3 known problems, so far one of them fixed for 3.1:
> * Dates before 1 January 1400. Dates before 1000 CE will crash. That’s
> fixed, out of range dates are converted to 1 Jan 1970.
> * Missing posted date in invoices. The reporter of this one hasn’t had
> time to figure out what caused the date to go missing. The symptom here is
> that GnuCash 3.0 will start up the first time but will fail to load the
> subsequently saved file.
> * Problems with saved report configurations. One case has been reduced to
> having non-ASCII characters (in this case ö) in a report title. Another
> case has submitted a file for analysis but I haven’t yet analyzed it. The
> work around is to rename saved-reports-2.4.
>
> It’s always possible that you have found a fourth problem, of course.
>
> Regards,
> John Ralls
>
>