Help finding files to move to new PC

[David T.]

David, I think that the OP stated his problem was not seeing top level accounts in his data file.

I seem to recall at some point in GC’s history that there were circumstances where the top level accounts were being suppressed on some operating systems. I mention this because the OP said the original GC file was under 2.2.9, and I will hazard a guess that they are trying to directly load the file in 2.6.7, which may be the source of the problem. 

I don’t recall the specifics of the scenario that I am describing, since it was under Windows, and I am not a Windows user, but perhaps someone who experienced this will remember and help the OP.

David T.

> On Sep 20, 2015, at 6:25 PM, David Carlson <david.carlson.417 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> On 9/20/2015 3:36 PM, Colin Law wrote:
>> On 20 September 2015 at 20:49, Joe Chando <jchando at rcn.com> wrote:
>>> I had a hardware failure (motherboard) so all data should be OK,  I had used
>>> checking.gnucash as the file name (or so I thought) that was stored in a
>>> checking account folder.
>>> When I moved the files to the new PC all the data appears to be there except
>>> that everything is listed by it's sub account, there is no longer a top
>>> level account.
>> This sort of question should really be asked on the gnucash-user list
>> rather than the development list (which is for discussion of the s/w
>> development).  I suggest you ask it there.  However I am not sure
>> exactly what you mean but perhaps if you do View > New Accounts Page
>> it will help.  If not then ask there and give a bit more detail on
>> exactly what you see.
>> 
>> Colin
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> 
> I am not sure whether this actually got transferred to the user mail list. 
> 
> Is the user concerned about the name of his data file or the structure
> of the account names within the the file.  It sounds to me like the
> former.  If that is the case, he may be looking at backups of his data
> file.  Then he should sort the files by date and look at a few of the
> most recent files.  I seem to recall that somewhere along the line there
> was a change to the naming convention for the backups.  File size is not
> a good indicator as they may not all be either compressed or uncompressed.
> 
> Once he has solved that problem it is time that he updated to a current
> version of GnuCash.
> 
> David C
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