gnucash help

[Dustin Henning]

Documents.gnucash should be your main file.  All of the others are backups
and logs of changes made. 

-----Original Message-----
From: gnucash-user-bounces+the00dustin=gmx.net at gnucash.org
[mailto:gnucash-user-bounces+the00dustin=gmx.net at gnucash.org] On Behalf Of
Rachel
Sent: Friday, July 12, 2013 13:59
To: Maf. King
Cc: gnucash-user at gnucash.org
Subject: Re: gnucash help

Here is a screenshot of my files :)

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.
>

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