Now that I am back on a real tower computer which, alas, is presently running Windows 10, I see that Mr Clarkson is currently working with Kalpesh Patel in a different thread, so persons interested in his problem can look for that thread.
On Mon, Sep 12, 2022 at 2:56 PM Adrien Monteleone < adrien.montele...@lusfiber.net> wrote: > Holy Cow. > > This thread is a disaster. > > Richard Clarkson, please, unless you can help Richard Barmann, do not > reply any longer in this thread. Please, start a new one or if still > applicable, reply in your own old thread. > > The two of you are replying to questions meant for the other and others > offering advice aren't making it clear who they are talking to, and > these two facts are combining to make things very confusing. > > Neither of you will get proper help with this confusion. > > So please keep the issues separate. > > From what I can see so far: > > Richard Barmann (who it appears, started *this* thread) is using Win10 > and *can* open GnuCash, but is allegedly seeing 'old data' and any *new > data* is apparently missing. > > Richard Clarkson is using Win11 and *cannot* open GnuCash *at all* using > v4.11, but *can* using v4.9. > > These are two vastly separate issues from two different people. (or else > it is I that am really lost) > > For everyone else, can we keep this thread about Richard Barmann's > problem and save the Richard Clarkson problem for a more appropriate > thread? If we do so, I suspect we can help both of them out in short > order. (at least shorter than keeping things confounded!) > > Regards, > Adrien > > On 9/12/22 1:06 PM, Richard Clarkson via gnucash-user wrote: > > Thanks Michael. > > > > No it doesn't. The path is C:/Program Files (x86)/gnucash/bin/gnucash.exe > > > > My data file is GNUData.gnucash - there are of course backups. But even > if I > > try to open GnuData.gnucash with GnuCash Program File then nothing > happens. > > > > Richard > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: gnucash-user > > <gnucash-user-bounces+rtclarkson=btinternet....@gnucash.org> On Behalf > Of > > Fross, Michael > > Sent: 12 September 2022 18:35 > > To: Richard Barmann <re...@att.net> > > Cc: gnucash-user@gnucash.org > > Subject: Re: [GNC] Opening Gnucash > > > > Richard, does your GNUCash file have a date string in the name? If so, > then > > you are inadvertently using a backup file. Your filename should be > > > > FILENAME.gnucash (FILENAME is whatever you decided to call it) > > > > If it looks like: > > > > FILENAME.gnucash.20220909023225.gnucash (insert a valid date time stamp) > > > > then it's a backup file and you are working on a backup. This is not > what > > you want. > > > > If this is the case, do a File | SaveAs and call it NAME.gnucash and go > from > > there. > > > > Michael > > > _______________________________________________ > 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. > -- David Carlson _______________________________________________ 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.
