Gnucash installing files to non-standard path in Windows

[Nathan Buchanan]

On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 6:15 PM, Daffyd Jones <daffydkjones1 at yahoo.co.uk>wrote:

> Hey,
>
> When you install Gnucash on Windows, it writes its configuration files and
> books to C:\Documents and Settings\username


For the books - that's up to you to choose the directory, as I think Derek
already mentioned. For the .gnucash directory, you may be able to make a
case that it should be in %userprofile%/Application Data, though I'm having
a hard time getting excited about this.

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> Almost all other applications write their data to C:\Documents and
> Settings\username\Application Data
>
> Is there any good reason why Gnucash doesn't do this?


Only that saving to %userprofile%/ is the way it's done for most other OSes,
and that it's been done that way since we started Windows releases.

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>
> I'm just a bit frustrated as I backed up my Application Data folder only to
> find that I have lost all my Gnucash information.


While it is regrettable that you lost data, it was stored in your
%userprofile% directory.

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> Daffyd
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