[GNC] Lost all my transactions on Gnu cash

[Georgina Hunter-Jones]

Thanks, i’ll Try that. Georgina

On Tue, Jan 15, 2019 at 2:00 PM Derek Atkins <derek at ihtfp.com> wrote:

> 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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> -derek
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