[GNC] GNC Fails to load Data File

[Bruce Irving]

David H.:  Thank you.  I'll try that when I get back to the office Monday.
I had tried a Reinstall from Synaptic but that didn't help.  I've tried
several times to compiling but always hit some snag that my inexperience
couldn't overcome.  While flatpaks have improved, it still has still a few
annoying idiosyncrasies.  If this doesn't work, I'll probably return to
flatpak.

David Cousins:  The first time, I did navigate to the data file and double
clicked it as was my usual method of opening it.  When that didn't work, I
stated gnucash and used file/open.  Both ways gave the same error.

I do appreciate your suggestions.

Bruce

On Fri, Apr 29, 2022 at 2:54 PM David H <hellvee at gmail.com> wrote:

> Bruce,
>
> Did you have a previous Debian install of gnucash - maybe try
> uninstalling and re-installing the debian version - perhaps following the
> uninstall instructions at
> https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Uninstall_Gnucash_Linux ...  You could also
> see if restarting solves anything.
>
> Why would you go back from probably the latest version available in Flatpak
> (4.10) to a version that's almost 18 months old (4.4) and 6 major releases
> ago with a lot of bug fixes and enhancements in between ?  Personally I
> would have stuck with the Flatpak version which obviously worked.  If the
> Flatpak sandboxing is causing an issue for you perhaps you should consider
> compiling it yourself ?
>
> Cheers David H.
>
>
> On Sat, 30 Apr 2022 at 04:52, Bruce Irving <idlegion39 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I have been using Flatpak for GNC when I discovered that a version is in
> > the Debian which I installed. and removed the flatpak files.  when I went
> > to open my data file either by double clicking the data files or Open
> from
> > GNC: No suitable backend was found for ... (See attached)
> > This is Version: 4.4
> > Build ID: 4.4+(2020-12-28)
> >
> > The file did open in latest flatpak
> >
> > Bruce
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