[GNC] No Suitable backend was found

[Human]

Sorry for the confusion. I said windows path to file which is C:\users\personal\

On 26 Aug 2019, 9:25 PM, at 9:25 PM, Adrien Monteleone <adrien.monteleone at lusfiber.net> wrote:
>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.
>> 
>
>
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