[GNC] No Suitable backend was found

[Adrien Monteleone]

You are storing your GnuCash data file in your C:\Windows directory? (or sub thereof) That is a system directory. I don’t think the practice of storing personal data there is recommended by Microsoft regardless of any other issues or concerns with GnuCash in particular. (you have a C:\Users directory for personal data vs. system data)

Regards,
Adrien

> On Aug 26, 2019 w35d238, at 5:46 AM, Human <houman2022 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Please see my answers inline below.
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> 
> On Mon, 26 Aug, 2019, 4:07 PM Geert Janssens, <geert.gnucash at kobaltwit.be>
> wrote:
> 
>> Op maandag 26 augustus 2019 08:18:31 CEST schreef Human:
>>> Hello,
>>> 
>>> I am trying to open a .gnucash file which I have been using fine for
>> years.
>>> But today when I tried to open it, I get the error message "No suitable
>>> backend was found". How do I resolve this?
>>> 
>>> thanks for the help.
>>> 
>>> regards,
>>> 
>>> HM
>> 
>> Hi,
>> 
>> - What OS are you using ?
>> 
>>> Windows 10
> 
> - What's the full path to your file ?
>> 
> 
>>> C:\windows path to file
> 
> - How did you try to open it ?
>> 
>>> I tried couple different ways.
> a) double click on the .gnucash file like always
> b) opened gnucash and did a File-> Open and then browsed to the windows
> directory and tried to open.
> 
> As a FYI, I have another gnucash file on same computer which opens just
> fine.
>