Please Help!

[Daniel Hollis]

I searched for the file and all i could find was the .gcm file under gnucash/books.  The main file was usually in mydocuments/gnucash.  The whole mydocuments/gnucash folder is gone.  I really hope that somehow I deleted it myself and the program did not have a bug because I am worried this could happen again..  Luckily i had another folder with some old files and I only lost a couple weeks of entries..  So not as bad as I originally thought but I have lost some confidence in the program.  It is not the first time I have had a scare with gnucash.  One time I did something wrong with the dates on a transaction and I had to manually edit the data file due to a known bug..  

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On Nov 7, 2011, at 8:46 PM, Nicolae Crisan <nicolaefc at gmail.com> wrote:

> I feel the frustration, I truly do. Question, <b>Do you have GnuCash
> on a flash/usb drive?</b> This is a critically important question. If
> you DO, then what could have happened is, when you moved from one
> computer to another OR you had ANOTHER device (usb drive) plugged in
> or some other device is using the drive letter your GnuCash usb drive
> was using, then GnuCash would NOT have been able to find the file.
> Here's the concept.
> 
> 1. You load GnuCash on a usb drive with the letter E:\
> 2. You restart your computer the next day and plug in your iPod Classic/Nano
> 3. The iPod shows up as a usb drive (Touches don't) and move music
> back and forth.
> 4. The iPod's drive shows up as a drive letter, such as E:\
> 5. You plug in your GnuCash usb drive and once you start the app, it
> cannot find your file!
> 
> (Plese don't get technical people, I'm not sure whether iPods show up
> as drives all the time, the concept is what counts here)
> 
> What happened? Well, as far as GnuCash is concerned your file was
> saved as E:\Company.gnucash! However, since you installed a new
> device, it is now F:\Company.gnucash. So, instead of opening up
> GnuCash "straight-up" from the EXE file, go INTO your usb drive and
> check where you saved it.
> 
> If you did NOT use a usb drive or forgot where you saved the data
> file, read on. So, if you used GnuCash on the computer itself, check
> your "My Recent Documents" for the file in question. When you find it,
> do NOT open it. Hover your mouse over it and right-click it. Select
> "Properties" and check to see the "Path" to where it's saved. Please
> post back so we can help you out with this. This really sucks majorly,
> hopefully it's NOT a bug. If you can't find it listed under your
> recent documents, we'll try searching for it. Please let us know what
> O.S. you have. That will drastically change (in some cases) the
> instructions to searching for it.
> 
> On Mon, Nov 7, 2011 at 2:45 PM, danh123 <danh4648 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I have spent much of the past month setting up my gnucash file, putting in
>> many hours.  I finally got things in order and figured out how to use the
>> software and I have only been using it about once a week now.  I just used
>> it about 5 days ago and everything was working fine.  Now, all of a sudden,
>> today I open the program and it says it cannot find data file.  I looked in
>> location where file usually is and the folder is gone!!!  What happened!????
>> I haven't even used computer much since then..  It seems like a lot of
>> things have been going wrong lately in my life and to lose all this data is
>> really tough.  I worked so hard on it and put in so much time.. and now it
>> is just gone????
>> 
>> 
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