[GNC] End of year, how to clone a set of accounts for the new year?

[Chris Green]

On Wed, Jan 20, 2021 at 08:07:07AM -0500, D. wrote:
> > Is there any easy way to create a set of empty copies of an existing
> > set of accounts so I can start the new year easily?
> 
> File -> Export -> Export Accounts
> 
Well, I have been trying to do this but it doesn't work.

I am using gnucash with sqlite on Linux.

The first problem is that one *always* gets the file lock issue if you
do this because the new database created by the export always has the
lock table in it.  This isn't a big issue of course because you can
ignore the message or remove the lock table.

However the saved accounts database is somehow broken.

I have done the following:-

    Start gnucash with "gnucash general.gnucash"

    Select File->Export->Export Accounts

    Set the data format to sqlite3

    Save as 'newyear'

    Quit from gnucash

    Run "gnucash newyear.gnucash"

    Click "Start anyway" when the lock file message pops up

    I then get a pop-up window saying "An error occurred while
    processing /home/chris/pcc/2020/newyear.gnucash"


So how do I get this to work?

-- 
Chris Green