Unable to relaunch GNUCASH

[John Filsak]

If you're using Windows they might be in the Recycle Bin.

On 10 January 2012 16:05, John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us> wrote:
>
> On Jan 9, 2012, at 5:25 AM, grandy wrote:
>
>> Greetings, and apologies if this is too much of a newbie question. I recently
>> installed the program, like it a lot, set up the accounts, and put
>> 3-months-worth of personal data on it already, but I am still quite
>> unfamiliar with the program. The problem is that all files on my desktop got
>> somehow deleted this weekend, and now when I try to launch the program i get
>> the error message that the file cannot be found: I did the obvious, i.e.,
>> tried to find it with 'Open', and tried to go 'File' and tried to relaunch
>> all recent files from the drop-down, but with the same result. Is there a
>> saved file that I can look for and copy to the Desktop, or is there another
>> way? Thank you.
>
> No, all of the backup and log files go to the same directory as the main data file, so if you had your accounts files on the desktop, everything else was there too.
>
> You've just gotten the "backup lesson": It's really important to have them, they should be automatic (meaning that the computer remembers to do them so that you don't have to), frequent, to multiple media, offsite, and tested (meaning that you from time to time restore from a backup and make sure that the result is useable). Get that setup *before* you start reentering your accounting data!
>
> Regards,
> John Ralls
>
>
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