[GNC] Okay, why won't it let me restore from backup?

[Colin Law]

On Tue, 7 May 2019 at 09:09, ToddAndMargo via gnucash-user
<gnucash-user at gnucash.org> wrote:
>
> I got back the same closed account.

If you had deleted the original file and replaced it with the new one
there is no way that it could have opened the old one (as it no longer
existed).
In fact do you actually mean that it opened the file but did not show
the Accounts page where you can see all the accounts?  If so then, as
has been said in another thread, all you needed to do was to click
File > New Accounts Page to open it.

The reason it automatically opened an Accounts Page when you did File
> Open is because it thought it was opening a file it had not seen
before so brought up the default view.  When you let it automatically
open the one from the backup it thought it was re-opening the original
file so restored the pages that you had previously, which was none.

Colin