gnucash help

[Rachel]

Hi!
Thank you!
I am on a mac snow lepoard 10.6.8 I'm pretty sure.
I see lots of .log files and .gnucash files
How do I know which to open there are so many.
Thank you for your help.
Is there any way I could copy the list of files and show you what I have?
Rachel

On 7/11/13 5:09 PM, Maf. King wrote:
> On Thu 11 July 13 14:17:36 Rachel wrote:
>> Hi!
>> My computer crashed but I saved the hard drive.
>> Now I can't figure out how to load my gnu cash files. I have downloaded
>> gnucash on my new computer and have tons of gnucash files on my hard
>> drive, but I'm not very computer savvy and I can't get them to load.
>> Please help! As you can imagine I need this info.
>> Thank you so much!!
>> Rachel
>
> Hi Rachel,
>
> You don't say which operating system you were / are using, nor if you get any
> error messages from gnucash so this is only general thoughts....
>
> In the accounts data directory from the old computer, there should be a
> selection of files which are something like:
> rachelsAccounts.gnucash    (this is the main datafile)
> rachelsAccounts.<timestampNumber>.gnucash
> rachelsAccounts.<timestampNumber>.log
>
> there will be several of the last 2, with different timestamps. The
> rachelsAccounts bit will vary depending on what you chose to call the datafile
> when you started to use GC way back when...
>
> If you can start the gnucash program, you should be able to file -> open and
> choose the main datafile.  From there on, GC will remember the file that as
> open and re-open it each time.
>
> HTH,
> Maf.
>