[GNC] Lost all my transactions on Gnu cash

[Derek Atkins]

Dear Georgina,

[snip]
> Op dinsdag 15 januari 2019 12:52:50 CET schreef Georgina Hunter-Jones:
>> Dear Geert,
>> Thank you, that helped to a certain extent. I can now see lines of
>> information with the account details. However, it appears to be 'read
>> only'
>> and I cannot enter any further data. I also cannot see anything more
>> than
>> an overall view of the account, ie no dates etc.
>>
>> Anything I can do to change that? Thank you very much for your help so
>> far.
>> Best wishes, Georgina

This sounds like it could be a permissions problem, although I'm not
familiar enough with MacOS permissions to know how best to fix it. 
Hopefully a MacOS expert will come in.  But it really sounds like when you
copied your data file you put it into a directory that your current user
does not have access to write new files.

Can you try this:

Make a new folder from the Finder
Copy your data file to the new Folder
Open GnuCash
File -> Open the data file from the new folder

Does this help?

>> On Tue, Jan 15, 2019 at 8:31 AM Geert Janssens
>> <geert.gnucash at kobaltwit.be>
>>
>> wrote:
>> > A few other suggestions:
>> >
>> > 1. Which files did you transfer ? While that sounds obvious, it is not
>> > always
>> > so. So this question is to ensure you really did copy your gnucash
>> data
>> > file
>> > to the older computer.
>> >
>> > 2. How have you tried to open your gnucash data file ? It's important
>> to
>> > realize that on MacOS double-clicking on a random gnucash data file
>> > doesn't
>> > necessarily mean that file will be opened. GnuCash will always reopen
>> that
>> > previously last opened file (which may be different from the one you
>> > double-
>> > clicked on). To fix that you can:
>> > - Start the gnucash application
>> > - Select File->Open
>> > - Navigate to your gnucash data file and open it this way
>> >
>> > Will that bring your data back ?
>> >
>> > Regards,
>> >
>> > Geert

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