On 9/20/2015 8:37 PM, David T. wrote: > David, I think that the OP stated his problem was not seeing top level > accounts in his data file. > > I seem to recall at some point in GC’s history that there were circumstances > where the top level accounts were being suppressed on some operating systems. > I mention this because the OP said the original GC file was under 2.2.9, and > I will hazard a guess that they are trying to directly load the file in > 2.6.7, which may be the source of the problem. > > I don’t recall the specifics of the scenario that I am describing, since it > was under Windows, and I am not a Windows user, but perhaps someone who > experienced this will remember and help the OP. > > David T. > >> On Sep 20, 2015, at 6:25 PM, David Carlson <david.carlson....@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >> On 9/20/2015 3:36 PM, Colin Law wrote: >>> On 20 September 2015 at 20:49, Joe Chando <jcha...@rcn.com> wrote: >>>> I had a hardware failure (motherboard) so all data should be OK, I had >>>> used >>>> checking.gnucash as the file name (or so I thought) that was stored in a >>>> checking account folder. >>>> When I moved the files to the new PC all the data appears to be there >>>> except >>>> that everything is listed by it's sub account, there is no longer a top >>>> level account. >>> This sort of question should really be asked on the gnucash-user list >>> rather than the development list (which is for discussion of the s/w >>> development). I suggest you ask it there. However I am not sure >>> exactly what you mean but perhaps if you do View > New Accounts Page >>> it will help. If not then ask there and give a bit more detail on >>> exactly what you see. >>> >>> Colin >>> _______________________________________________ >>> gnucash-devel mailing list >>> gnucash-devel@gnucash.org >>> https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel >>> >> I am not sure whether this actually got transferred to the user mail list. >> >> Is the user concerned about the name of his data file or the structure >> of the account names within the the file. It sounds to me like the >> former. If that is the case, he may be looking at backups of his data >> file. Then he should sort the files by date and look at a few of the >> most recent files. I seem to recall that somewhere along the line there >> was a change to the naming convention for the backups. File size is not >> a good indicator as they may not all be either compressed or uncompressed. >> >> Once he has solved that problem it is time that he updated to a current >> version of GnuCash. >> >> David C >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> gnucash-user mailing list >> gnucash-u...@gnucash.org >> https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user >> ----- >> Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. >> You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All. >
I just looked up the release 2.29. It was done in Feb 2009, which was about 2 years before I started using GnuCash. Still, 6 years isn't really a long time. David C _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list gnucash-devel@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel