Transferring Date

[Josh Sled]

"Rajiv Vyas" <rajiv.vyas at gmail.com> writes:
> I think I have probably made some mistake here. I just migrated from Ubuntu
> 7.04 to 7.10 and  copied the GnuCash folder thinking that it would have data
> of all my transactions. The questions are: Have I made a mistake? If not,
> how do I retrive the data from the folder?

What's "the GnuCash Folder"?  If you mean ~/.gnucash/, that directory is for
GnuCash to store meta-data.

GnuCash operates on data files, just like a word processor or spreadsheet.
The data file would have been in the title bar of your main window, but
obviously you can't get that anymore.

You'll need find your datafile and File > Open it.  GnuCash doesn't enforce a
particular extension, but we've recommended .xac, .gnc and .gnucash for a
while, so it might have a name like that.  Alternatively, if you find a
directory with a bunch of timestampped .xac and .log files, that directory
probably has your datafile, as well.  Obviously, if you remember the name of
the file ("myfinances" or whatever) then just find that.

If you did store your datafile in ~/.gnucash/, please move it out of there
at the earliest opportunity; that directory is for GnuCash, not you.

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