Gnucash installing files to non-standard path in Windows

Derek Atkins warlord at MIT.EDU
Tue Dec 9 12:58:41 EST 2008


Daffyd Jones <daffydkjones1 at yahoo.co.uk> writes:

> Hey,
>
> When you install Gnucash on Windows, it writes its configuration files and books to C:\Documents and Settings\username
>
> Almost all other applications write their data to C:\Documents and Settings\username\Application Data
>
> Is there any good reason why Gnucash doesn't do this? 

GnuCash puts its data wherever you tell it do, just like Word.
You must have told it to put it there.

> I'm just a bit frustrated as I backed up my Application Data folder only to find that I have lost all my Gnucash information.

Sorry.

> Daffyd

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-derek

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