can't find last gnucash data file

[Anthony Dardis]

File > Open, and then select the file you created in August (it's the one  
with no .extensions, those are logs and backups and things).

(I'm assuming (and hoping) that when you found the .lck, etc. files you  
also found the data you created in August.)





On Thu, 30 Sep 2010 12:13:53 -0400, Stephen Elliott  
<stephen_h_elliott at yahoo.com> wrote:

> TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN:
>
> I am a fairly experienced user of a variety of accounting packages over  
> the last two decades (and a former international banker with lots of IT  
> experience), and thought I would try Gnucash for personal use, as well.
>
> I put used Gnucash for the first time in mi-August and put in about a  
> year's worth of bank and credit card data data, and had the chart of  
> accounts set up pretty well.   Busy with other things, I then didn't do  
> anything again until early this morning when I wanted to look up total  
> loan payments to a specific individual.
>
> In trying to restart where I left off, I seem to have either erased the  
> old data's file name from the FILE pull down menu (I can't believe I  
> haven't backed up the data somewhere last session, and repeatedly).  So  
> I then created a dummy file and saved in just to see where the Apple  
> Macbook defaulted to and what the file extensions were.
>
> Now that I have found all the .lck, .log, and .xoc files, I can't seem  
> to load them because Gnucash is defaulting today's dummy file instead.
>
> How do I restore to where I was on August 20th?   I don't wan to have to  
> reconsruct everything for obvious reasons, but am stymied.  I've looked  
> in the Gnucash help manuals on www.gnucash.org website,  and found some  
> help, but not enough.
>
> Sincerely,
> Stephen Elliott
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