How to a migrate my data to another computer?

Derek Atkins warlord at MIT.EDU
Mon Aug 3 11:01:30 EDT 2009


Hi,

macaronic <macaronic at gmail.com> writes:

> I did something stupid.  I saved my GnuCash data.
>
> Well, I hope I did. I went File --> Save.  This saved a 50kb file with my
> name and no extension along with some log files on my usb disk.  I then
> reformatted and reinstalled GnuCash.  I can't open the file I saved.
>
> Did I lose my data?
> If so, how can I do this properly in the future?

What happens when you File -> Open and point GnuCash to the place where
you saved the data?  Or, what happens if you copy the base file back to
your system drive?

-derek

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