Hi Colin, thank you very much for the quick response to my post. I dropped the database and let gnucash create it. But I get the same error message again.
Joerg On Mon, 16 Oct 2017 14:46:31 +0100 Colin Law <clan...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 16 October 2017 at 10:50, <joerg_dieder...@freenet.de> wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I'm trying to convert my existing gnucash account from xml to mysql. I > > created a new mysql database, but when I try to save my data into this > > database with gnucash I get the following error message: > > Don't manually create the database first. Just use File > Save As and > give it a database name. You can overwrite an existing gnucash > database in this way but don't try to overwrite an existing db unless > it was created by gnucash. I am not guaranteeing that this is the > problem, but try that first. > > > > > Operating System: Linux opensuse LEAP 42.2 > > gnucash: gnucash-2.6.16-3.3.1.x86_64 > > mysql: mariadb-10.0.31-20.7.1.x86_64 > > I don't know whether anyone has tried it with mariadb, but it should > be ok as maria is supposed to be a dropin replacement for mysql. > > Colin > _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@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.