Win OS reinstall looses Program files including logs - GCM file found

Colin Law clanlaw at gmail.com
Sun Feb 1 09:55:21 EST 2015


On 1 February 2015 at 14:14, Mary Ann Wallace <wallace at naples.net> wrote:
> Thank you, John and Dave, for your comments.  You confirmed that if the
> files in C:/Program Files are gone and I'm left to recreating my data.  It
> would be nice if the program had a feature that asked where do you want your
> data and log files saved to.  It seems to save automatically to C:/Program
> Files.

When you first saved your accounts file it would have opened up a
browser window to allow you to specify a name and where to save it.
It may be that, on Windows, it defaults to Program Files and that you
just accepted it without noticing.

At any time you can change where it is by using File > Save As and
selecting where you want to put it.  The log and backup files will go
in the same folder as the accounts file.

Colin


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