gnucash help

[Rachel]

Hi there are a bunch of document.gnucash files, when I try to open them 
I get this error, see screenshot, thank you!

On 7/12/13 6:01 PM, Dustin Henning wrote:
> Documents.gnucash should be your main file.  All of the others are backups
> and logs of changes made.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: gnucash-user-bounces+the00dustin=gmx.net at gnucash.org
> [mailto:gnucash-user-bounces+the00dustin=gmx.net at gnucash.org] On Behalf Of
> Rachel
> Sent: Friday, July 12, 2013 13:59
> To: Maf. King
> Cc: gnucash-user at gnucash.org
> Subject: Re: gnucash help
>
> Here is a screenshot of my files :)
>
> On 7/11/13 5:09 PM, Maf. King wrote:
>> 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.
>>

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