gnucash help

[Maf. King]

On Thu 11 July 13 14:17:36 Rachel wrote:
> Hi!
> My computer crashed but I saved the hard drive.
> Now I can't figure out how to load my gnu cash files. I have downloaded
> gnucash on my new computer and have tons of gnucash files on my hard
> drive, but I'm not very computer savvy and I can't get them to load.
> Please help! As you can imagine I need this info.
> Thank you so much!!
> Rachel


Hi Rachel,

You don't say which operating system you were / are using, nor if you get any 
error messages from gnucash so this is only general thoughts....

In the accounts data directory from the old computer, there should be a 
selection of files which are something like:
rachelsAccounts.gnucash    (this is the main datafile)
rachelsAccounts.<timestampNumber>.gnucash
rachelsAccounts.<timestampNumber>.log

there will be several of the last 2, with different timestamps. The 
rachelsAccounts bit will vary depending on what you chose to call the datafile 
when you started to use GC way back when...

If you can start the gnucash program, you should be able to file -> open and 
choose the main datafile.  From there on, GC will remember the file that as 
open and re-open it each time.

HTH,
Maf.