On dinsdag 8 augustus 2017 18:29:44 CEST L. Wayne wrote: > Help! My computer crashed and I was forced to clean install windows 10. I > do have backups. I have loaded Gnucash exe back onto my machine. > However, I can not locate the previous files I had for my accounting. > Where is the data I previously had and how do I “point” my new Gnucash > program to this data for recovery? > > What are the extensions I am looking for? Where are they likely to be found > in the system? How do I bring my “new” Gnucash to that location so that I > can continue my accounting? > Hi,
It's good you made backups! That will simplify the recovery quite a bit! Gnucash data is simply stored in a file, just like you would save a word or excel document. The only difference is that gnucash opens the last used file automatically. The way to tell gnucash to open that file again is like with any other program: - either you double-click on the data file and gnucash will open it (and remember it for next time) - you start gnucash, choose File->Open and navigate to your data file somewhere on your hard drive. As to where this file may be, that depends entirely on where you saved it when you first created the file. Gnucash doesn't decide this for you. You have been asked to the first time where to save it. If you don't remember, search for files with the '.gnucash' extension on your backups, which is the normal extension for your gnucash files. More background can be found in the Concepts and Tutorial guide [1] and in particular https://www.gnucash.org/docs/v2.6/C/gnucash-guide/basics-files1.html or on the gnucash FAQ https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/ FAQ#GnuCash_Files_and_managing_a_GnuCash_installation (and following). You may also want to recover your settings. Where they are stored is explained here: https://www.gnucash.org/docs/v2.6/C/gnucash-guide/basics-migrate-settings.html Regards, Geert [1] http://gnucash.org/viewdoc.phtml?rev=2.6&lang=C&doc=guide _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org 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.
