On 9/20/2015 9:12 PM, David Carlson wrote: > On 9/20/2015 8:37 PM, David T. wrote: >> David, I think that the OP stated his problem was not seeing top level >> accounts in his data file. >> >> I seem to recall at some point in GC’s history that there were circumstances >> where the top level accounts were being suppressed on some operating >> systems. I mention this because the OP said the original GC file was under >> 2.2.9, and I will hazard a guess that they are trying to directly load the >> file in 2.6.7, which may be the source of the problem. >> >> I don’t recall the specifics of the scenario that I am describing, since it >> was under Windows, and I am not a Windows user, but perhaps someone who >> experienced this will remember and help the OP. >> >> David T. >> >>> On Sep 20, 2015, at 6:25 PM, David Carlson <[email protected]> >>> wrote: >>> >>> On 9/20/2015 3:36 PM, Colin Law wrote: >>>> On 20 September 2015 at 20:49, Joe Chando <[email protected]> wrote: >>>>> I had a hardware failure (motherboard) so all data should be OK, I had >>>>> used >>>>> checking.gnucash as the file name (or so I thought) that was stored in a >>>>> checking account folder. >>>>> When I moved the files to the new PC all the data appears to be there >>>>> except >>>>> that everything is listed by it's sub account, there is no longer a top >>>>> level account. >>>> This sort of question should really be asked on the gnucash-user list >>>> rather than the development list (which is for discussion of the s/w >>>> development). I suggest you ask it there. However I am not sure >>>> exactly what you mean but perhaps if you do View > New Accounts Page >>>> it will help. If not then ask there and give a bit more detail on >>>> exactly what you see. >>>> >>>> Colin >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> gnucash-devel mailing list >>>> [email protected] >>>> https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel >>>> >>> I am not sure whether this actually got transferred to the user mail list. >>> >>> Is the user concerned about the name of his data file or the structure >>> of the account names within the the file. It sounds to me like the >>> former. If that is the case, he may be looking at backups of his data >>> file. Then he should sort the files by date and look at a few of the >>> most recent files. I seem to recall that somewhere along the line there >>> was a change to the naming convention for the backups. File size is not >>> a good indicator as they may not all be either compressed or uncompressed. >>> >>> Once he has solved that problem it is time that he updated to a current >>> version of GnuCash. >>> >>> David C >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> gnucash-user mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> 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. > I just looked up the release 2.29. It was done in Feb 2009, which was > about 2 years before I started using GnuCash. Still, 6 years isn't > really a long time. > > David C
I have one of those old fashioned keyboards with keys that actually move down when I press them. That may be why sometimes a character fails to come all the way out of the keyboard and arrive at the page. release 22.9 oops 2.2.9. David C _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
