gnucash data storage

[warlord at MIT.EDU]

GnuCash remembers the location of your datafile by using GConf.
This stores its state under $HOME/.gconf (or .gconfd), where
$HOME varies from system to system.  On my Linux box it is
/home/warlord, but on Windows it's probably under your
Documents & Settings folder for your particular user.

-derek

Quoting Jim <jaleks at galaxycable.net>:

> Thanks Ian for a reply. I do wish to clarify something for those
> that may respond. We have: used add/remove, deleted all entries
> we could find in the registry, removed all traces from MyComputer/
> C/Program Files, deleted all entries we could find in My Documents
> and even emptied the recycle bin, then did a restart of Windows XP.
> Once the machine had restarted, we again downloaded the program, and
> let it install. Upon completion of the apparently new installation,
> when we first opened the program, all his data was present. I just
> now had a thought...it could be somewhere in the Windows folder as
> a .dat file, or in system restore?  I'll check that tomorrow afternoon.
> 	I do appreciate the assistance.
> 	Respectfully,
> 	Jim Alexander
>
>
> On Tue, 2008-08-26 at 11:40 +0900, Ian Lewis wrote:
>> Forgot to CC the list.
>>
>> *still wishes "reply to all" was the default in mail clients*
>>
>> 2008/8/26 Ian Lewis <ianmlewis at gmail.com>
>>         Jim,
>>
>>         The data is stored in the gnucash data file which is stored
>>         wherever your friend stored it on disk originally. Gnucash
>>         simply remembers the last file you had open and opens it
>>         automatically on startup. I'm not sure where gnucash would
>>         save this file by default on Windows but it's likely this file
>>         is in your friend's My Documents folder or something like
>>         that.
>>
>>         If you are simply trying to delete accounts you can delete
>>         accounts normally in gnucash by right clicking on them and
>>         selecting the "delete account" option. You could also just
>>         start over from scratch by selecting File->New->New File
>>
>>         Ian
>>
>>         2008/8/26 Jim <jaleks at galaxycable.net>
>>
>>
>>                        My friend uses Windows XP Pro. He has
>>                 inadvertently entered wrong
>>                 accounts in his copy of gnucash. I use Linux version
>>                 and do not
>>                 know where the data is stored in the Windows version.
>>                 In order to
>>                 show him how to set up the accounts better, I need to
>>                 know how to
>>                 remove the incorrect accounts. So far, when we tried
>>                 to delete thru
>>                 add/remove or going to registry and deleting all
>>                 gnucash entries,
>>                 the next time we install gucash, the incorrect
>>                 information returns.
>>                 Will someone please advise us how to remove the
>>                 incorrect data (or
>>                 better, perhaps) completely remove gnucash so we can
>>                 get a clean
>>                 fresh install in Windows XP pro?
>>                        Thanks for any responses
>>                        Jim
>>
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