On Sat, 11 Nov 2023 10:53:44 -0500 Michael or Penny Novack <stepbystepf...@comcast.net> wrote:
> On 11/10/2023 8:55 PM, Phil Reynolds wrote: > > I am about to start using gnucash again after giving up a few years > > ago (for personal reasons). However, I want to reopen my old > > accounts to get the figure I was owed. I can see my old files, but > > gnucash as supplied in Debian 12 does not seem to be able to open > > them in any way. > > > > Can someone possibly advise how I might do this? > > > a) If you have not checked permissions on the old file, do that first. Won't be permissions but checked anyway. The file has sat there for years. > b) When you say cannot open the file, what do you mean? Does not open > the file with gnucash when you click on the object? (the file). Or > does not open the file even when you start gnucash and then use "open > file" to choose that file by full name? It is the latter you should > describe as "cannot open file". The last of those situations. > c) Have you in between upgraded the version of gnucash? Or are you > using the same on as when you last had this file open? Extremely likely - I have no clue what version was installed last time these were touched. > d) What, if any messages are you getting on this failure to open. Assuming the file will be one of the ones in ~/gnucash/books, "No suitable backend was found" for any of them. If not, I don't think I can even identify the file. Of course, there is a chance this is not the old book I need anyway, but if it is, I can be 100% accurate rather than a little short of the mark with one figure I am owed. -- Phil Reynolds mail: phil-...@tinsleyviaduct.com Web: http://phil.tinsleyviaduct.com/ _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: 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.