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

[Mary Ann Wallace]

Thank you for changing the target save folder.

Is this "fix" available only in a beta or online version?  I'm assuming 
those of us using v.2.6.3 won't have this available to us. I am running 
Gnucash v.2.6.3 originally installed on Win 7 Pro 32-bit (X84) laptop 
and after the data I lost that was in C:\Program Files, I've been 
debating downloading a new version and starting my 2015 year with that 
while I run v.2.6.3 on another computer to update it with the 6 months 
of data lost.  I have hard copies of data, so I don't need consecutive 
years on the same program.  I can just start with a new balance sheet as 
of Jan 1 and zero income. But having data files automatically saved to 
Documents would be a huge relief and make backing up easier.

Mary Ann


On 2/1/2015 3:49 PM, John Ralls wrote:
>> On Feb 1, 2015, at 8:48 AM, Mark Wigmore <mawigmore at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> On 1 February 2015 at 16:38, Colin Law <clanlaw at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> On 1 February 2015 at 16:17, David Carlson <david.carlson.417 at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>> Colin,
>>>>
>>>> You have raised a good point.  What does GnuCash default to before there
>>>> is a preference defined?  Is that mentioned somewhere in the
>>> documentation?
>>>
>> In the desktop shortcut Properties, you can specify the default folder in
>> the 'Start In' field. It should be possible to set this in the installer.
>> The path to the Documents folder, for example, is stored in
>> "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Shell
>> Folders" under "Personal". You need registry access though. Some discussion
>> of finding these paths here:
>> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3492920/is-there-a-system-defined-environment-variable-for-documents-directory
>>
>> Hope this helps,
> Yup. That’s a monumental fail on our part. The setup is set to start in program files. I’ll fix that immediately so that it will go to the Documents folder. Our Inno Setup has a special key for just that purpose.
>
> Regards,
> John Ralls
>
>
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