On woensdag 25 mei 2011, dennis jantzen wrote: > My computer broke, yet the hard drive was fine, so I replaced the computer > and had the hard drive copied and placed on my new hard drive. I tried to > use your accounting software. However the files are missing. How do I > retrieve the accounting files? > > Thank you, > > Dennis C. Jantzen > 262-960-6341 > Hi Dennis,
Is this on Windows, MacOS or linux ? What version of GnuCash were you using ? The general answer would be this: the GnuCash data file is just an ordinary file. When you first created the file you were asked a location to save it. If your hard drive was copied over correctly, it should still be in that place, but only you can remember where that would have been. I imagine that because of the replaced hard drive GnuCash no longer remembers where you saved that file for you. So GnuCash can't open this file automatically for you on your new system. You can use File->Open to open your data file once you remember where you stored it. If you can't remember, you may remember part of the name you gave your file and can use that to find your data file. You can use your system's standard file manager tools for this (like Windows Explorer on Windows, or Finder/Sherlock on OS X,...). This is outside the scope of GnuCash. Best of luck, Geert _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list gnucash-devel@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
