Family <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 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.
What are the datafile(s) that you copied?
Do you recall what the files/directories they were originally?
What's the path/name of the datafile you're opening?
If you run gnucash from a terminal like such:
$ gnucash --debug --logto stderr
What – if anything – is printed when you open the old datafile and it hangs?
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