[GNC] Opening Gnucash

David Carlson david.carlson.417 at gmail.com
Mon Sep 12 16:07:01 EDT 2022


Now that I am back on a real tower computer which, alas, is presently
running Windows 10, I see that Mr Clarkson is currently working with
Kalpesh Patel in a different thread, so persons interested in his problem
can look for that thread.

On Mon, Sep 12, 2022 at 2:56 PM Adrien Monteleone <
adrien.monteleone at lusfiber.net> wrote:

> Holy Cow.
>
> This thread is a disaster.
>
> Richard Clarkson, please, unless you can help Richard Barmann, do not
> reply any longer in this thread. Please, start a new one or if still
> applicable, reply in your own old thread.
>
> The two of you are replying to questions meant for the other and others
> offering advice aren't making it clear who they are talking to, and
> these two facts are combining to make things very confusing.
>
> Neither of you will get proper help with this confusion.
>
> So please keep the issues separate.
>
>  From what I can see so far:
>
> Richard Barmann (who it appears, started *this* thread) is using Win10
> and *can* open GnuCash, but is allegedly seeing 'old data' and any *new
> data* is apparently missing.
>
> Richard Clarkson is using Win11 and *cannot* open GnuCash *at all* using
> v4.11, but *can* using v4.9.
>
> These are two vastly separate issues from two different people. (or else
> it is I that am really lost)
>
> For everyone else, can we keep this thread about Richard Barmann's
> problem and save the Richard Clarkson problem for a more appropriate
> thread? If we do so, I suspect we can help both of them out in short
> order. (at least shorter than keeping things confounded!)
>
> Regards,
> Adrien
>
> On 9/12/22 1:06 PM, Richard Clarkson via gnucash-user wrote:
> > Thanks Michael.
> >
> > No it doesn't. The path is C:/Program Files (x86)/gnucash/bin/gnucash.exe
> >
> > My data file is GNUData.gnucash - there are of course backups. But even
> if I
> > try to open GnuData.gnucash with GnuCash Program File then nothing
> happens.
> >
> > Richard
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: gnucash-user
> > <gnucash-user-bounces+rtclarkson=btinternet.com at gnucash.org> On Behalf
> Of
> > Fross, Michael
> > Sent: 12 September 2022 18:35
> > To: Richard Barmann <reb68 at att.net>
> > Cc: gnucash-user at gnucash.org
> > Subject: Re: [GNC] Opening Gnucash
> >
> > Richard, does your GNUCash file have a date string in the name?  If so,
> then
> > you are inadvertently using a backup file.  Your filename should be
> >
> > FILENAME.gnucash   (FILENAME is whatever you decided to call it)
> >
> > If it looks like:
> >
> > FILENAME.gnucash.20220909023225.gnucash  (insert a valid date time stamp)
> >
> > then it's a backup file and you are working on a backup.  This is not
> what
> > you want.
> >
> > If this is the case, do a File | SaveAs and call it NAME.gnucash and go
> from
> > there.
> >
> > Michael
>
>
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