How to a migrate my data to another computer?

[Colin Law]

2009/8/5 macaronic <macaronic at gmail.com>:
>
> Thanks a million Maf.King
>
> I copied it to my desktop -> No luck
> I copied it to a new folder to my desktop -> No luck
> I uninstall and reinstalled GnuCash and tried again -> No luck
> Always the same message: "The file //C:\Documents and
> Settings\Computer\Desktop\New Folder could not be found."

You say that you copied it to a new folder on the desktop yet the
message is saying that it cannot find the folder.  Try just copying
the file franc to the desktop and opening it from there.

Colin L

>
> I'm much more hopeful to keep trying to access this file now that I know
> that the data fine and that you were able to open it.  I really appreciate
> your help!
>
> I'll get it... eventually.  Thanks again!
>
>
>
> Maf. King wrote:
>>
>> On Tuesday 04 August 2009 10:29:03 macaronic wrote:
>>> Thanks for your reply Derek!
>>>
>>> When I go File -> Open and select the location where the file is saved, I
>>> get "The file //G:\My Backed up Documents\gnu\frank could not be found."
>>>
>>> I have also tried File -> Import -> (Various Options) with no luck.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> The directory has one file with no extension (50KB) and two log files
>>> (1kB). I have packaged everything in a zip file:
>>> http://sites.google.com/site/gnunow/gnu/gnu.zip?attredirects=0
>>>
>>>
>>> Thank you! Loosing all your data is not the best thing in the world.
>>>
>>
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I've grabbed that archive, copied the file "frank" onto my desktop, and it
>> opens fine (well, presumably fine... don't know what is supposed to be
>> there,
>> but it opens without complaint, and I can see transactions!)
>>
>> I suspect that there is a problem with the colon in the path you give, and
>> gconf not handling it very well.
>>
>> if you copy the data file (frank) on to your desktop (maybe into a new
>> folder
>> there!), and open it from there, what happens?
>>
>> Maf.
>>
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