[GNC] Can no longer print checks

[David Carlson]

I did not address the failure to print problem.  That is probably not
related to the .chk files but something else.  Can you print reorts?

David C

On Sat, Dec 1, 2018 at 10:42 AM David Carlson <david.carlson.417 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> HB,
>
> Windows always calls *.chk files 'Recovered File Fragments'
>
> If the files are in the 'C:\Program Files
> (x86)\gnucash\share\gnucash\checks' directory they are not fragments but
> the files that you want, at least for 2.6.x releases of GnuCash in
> Windows.  You can open them (carefully) with Wordpad and see what they
> contain.  If you made custom check printing formats they may be somewhere
> else, I have not tried that.
>
> David C
>
> On Sat, Dec 1, 2018 at 10:22 AM HB Sidman via gnucash-user <
> gnucash-user at gnucash.org> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> After using gnucash for several years I decided it was time to upgrade
>> from 2 to 3 a few months ago. Bad decision. If it is not broken don't
>> fix it. The upgrade went smoothly with no problem. Every function worked
>> both old and new. Until I tried to print a check. At which point nothing
>> happened with the printer. After a 2 or 3 minutes I got a warning
>> message that my check file was a fragment. I went into the system to
>> verify that and found that all the .chk files were fragments. I tried to
>> reload new files but they kept being replaced by the fragments.
>>
>> Step 2: I went back gnucash 2 last stable version on line. It reloaded
>> without a problem but still could not print checks. Same problem.
>>
>> Step 3: Loaded gnucash 2 on a laptop that had never had it on it before.
>> Then took a saved file from 3 months before the problem happened and
>> loaded it. Once again everything went fine until I tried to print. Then
>> was presented the same problem of .chk file fragments and not being able
>> to replace them.
>>
>> Step 4: Using the laptop as my test bed, I removed everything gnucash
>> from the hard drive. Search the C drive for any thing left and removed
>> it as the administrator. Then did a search for .chk and found 4 files
>> buried on the C drive - all fragments. I could delete them but they
>> would come right back as soon as I restarted the computer.
>>
>> Any help would be greatly appreciated - I am getting tired of hand
>> writing all of my checks.
>>
>> I am running Windows 10 on all of my computers and they are all
>> completely up to date.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> HB
>>
>>
>>
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