[GNC] GNC Fails to load Data File

[David H]

Bruce,

To me the screenshot of your file name "AL.gnucash" with a type
of "Spreadsheet" implied that you were just using the standard default
GnuCash xml backup - is this not the case ?

Cheers David H,

On Sun, 1 May 2022 at 04:54, Bruce Irving <birving136 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Thank you, Derek.
> That is another thing I will check Monday
> Bruce
>
> On Sat, Apr 30, 2022 at 7:16 AM Derek Atkins <derek at ihtfp.com> wrote:
>
>> Most likely you're using the SQL backend, and it sounds like you might not
>> have the right SQL Drivers installed on Debian.  If you're using SQLite,
>> then make sure you have the dbi dbd sqlite driver installed.
>>
>> -derek
>>
>> On Sat, April 30, 2022 8:56 am, Bruce Irving wrote:
>> > 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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