Have used gnucash for many years - even donated the loan s/w to the effort.
Computer died unexpectedly on Wed last. I had made a habit of saving all financial information to 2 separate USB drives and so thought I was home free. 2 separate copies of all information!!! It would appear that I was terribly wrong. I had been using FC 5 The new computer is using Kubuntu 7.10 with gnucash 2.2.x (not sure of last digit.) - do not know previous version of gnucash - whatever is current under FC 5 I think. Copied all of the financial directories from a USB drive to the new hard drive. Set up the home directory for gnucash and booted gnucash. Went through the business of creating a new account, then canceled that and instructed to open an existing account file. Everything was okay until I attempted to open the old data file. Nothing happens. gnucash just hangs. Thought maybe it was taking a Looooooong time to read the file. Let it run for about 10 minutes - no change. The gnucash window is just vacant and the running icon just goes like the energizer bunny - never stops. Finally clicked the terminate symbol in the upper right corner - nothing. gnucash is truly hung. Finally KDE informs me that gnucash is not rtesponding and lets me terminate. Repeated the above sereval times, even after refreshing the data file from the USB drive each time and deleteing the lock file, etc. I have several years of data locked up in that old data file, including the current financial status. Is it truly lost? Do I really have to start from scratch and count the old information as lost? That will lose a lot of information that cannot be regained. Tell me that the gnucash devlopers have a solution - please. Thanks for any help. Terry -- ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ ====================================================== ****************************************************** If you are always rushing towards the future, Then you never have any past. Terry Boldt ****************************************************** Paraphrasing Ben Franklin: Those who sacrifice freedom for safety, have neither. The exact quote: They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790), US author, diplomat, inventor, physicist, politician, & printer Historical Review of Pennsylvania, 1759 ****************************************************** _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
