Request for aid after hard drive crash

[David T.]

John--

For an explanation of the file names, take a look at: http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/FAQ#Q:_What_are_all_these_.gnucash_and_.log_files_filling_up_my_directory.3F

Given that your source file is older than your backups (how did you determine this?), then you should follow the information provided in the above FAQ section to open one of the backup files and save it correctly.

Getting the file onto your new machine is as simple as dragging it to the appropriate folder in Finder. Anticipating your next question, the new installation will not know about this file, and will default to asking you if you want to create a new account hierarchy. Just cancel that and use File->Open to open the file you recently renamed and copied to the new location.

HTH,
David

P.S.: Try to keep these on the list (by using Reply-All) so that others can benefit from the discussion.


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 From: john henderson <avondalej at hotmail.com>
To: sunfish62 at yahoo.com 
Sent: Friday, January 18, 2013 3:59 AM
Subject: RE: Request for aid after hard drive crash
 

 

Hallo david

OK I used the finder search for gnu on the hard drive which crashed.  I now have about 20 or more files with the same same of my accounts information and the date I last used gnucash (30 Dec) eg Comptes1.20121230124207.gnucash.  

I found one called Comptes 1, but that only has the accounts just to sept 2012

What do I do to restore/open the good file??


Many thanks, sorry to trouble you so much

John


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Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2013 11:45:59 -0800
From: sunfish62 at yahoo.com
Subject: Re: Request for aid after hard drive crash
To: avondalej at hotmail.com; gnucash-user at gnucash.org


John--

Sorry to hear about your hard drive. 

If you can read the drive, then you will need to use Finder to open a window on that drive. >From there, you should look in /Users/<user> for the gnucash file. It will be whatever name you gave it, quite possibly with a ".gnucash" extension. 

If you saved the data file somewhere else, then you'll have to look there.

David


________________________________
 From: john henderson <avondalej at hotmail.com>
To: gnucash-user at gnucash.org 
Sent: Thursday, January 17, 2013 2:57 AM
Subject: RE: Request for aid after hard drive crash
 

hallo
My hard drive (mac intel snowleopard) crashed.  I have installed gnucash on the mac laptop.  how do I retrieve my accounts?  I can open the hard drive but not run it.Please note that i am totally dumb with regards computers, so your response needs to be in english and not computer language
John                           
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