Moving Data to New PC

[David Carlson]

On 5/13/2013 8:47 AM, Derek Atkins wrote:
> Ken,
>
> "Ken G." <beachkidken at gmail.com> writes:
>
>> I dare say it is a matter of copying the last ten files saved, the
>> application and
>> the log files. I never could figure out what the different is. When I
>> have to manually
>> open a file, it is either the latest 'application log' or the GnuCash
>> financial data
>> file. For example, below are my latest files for two days:
>>
>> /home/keng/GnuCash/kengreen.gnucash.20130113125752.gnucash.20130510202835.log
>> /home/keng/GnuCash/kengreen.gnucash.20130113125752.gnucash.20130511164537.log
>> /home/keng/GnuCash/kengreen.gnucash.20130113125752.gnucash
>> /home/keng/GnuCash/kengreen.gnucash.20130113125752.gnucash.20130511164650.log
>>
>> The first file was saved Friday while the last three was saved at the
>> same time on Saturday.
>> It is beyond my comprehension. Currently, I am using Ubuntu 12.04 LTS
>> as my main
>> operating system.
> The fact that you have files that look like this implies that at some
> point in time you inadvertantly opened a backup file from January 13,
> 2013 and started using that as your main data file.
>
> Generally you should only need to copy your main data file (which in
> your case should have been kengreen.gnucash), however in your case you
> stopped using that as your main file at some point, so your main data
> file is now kengreen.gnucash.20130113125752.gnucash.
>
>> Ken
>> Please remember to CC this list on all your replies.
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> -derek
>
The reference that Maf gave <

http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/FAQ#Q:_What_are_all_these_.gnucash_and_.log_files_filling_up_my_directory.3F> 

tells you one way to recover from this situation, but I think that if a backup file has effectively become the main file, I would do a 'save as' to the main file name.  This might lose some data if you were putting new data in both files, so be careful.

David C