location of files when I click "save"

[Colin Law]

On 19 November 2015 at 21:54, Marc Sopher <mdsophermd at comcast.net> wrote:
> Colin,
>
> Thanks for responding so quickly.  I’m not sure I explained my problem well.
> I thought it might be simpler to save to  a gnucash folder in “My
> Documents,” but when I open the gnucash program now, my home and office
> accounts do not appear.  That makes me think that the program cannot find
> the previously saved information, that I changed a path and need to restore
> it.  How might I do that?  I certainly can find gnucash files within my
> computer, but somehow the program is no longer accessing the saved data.

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List otherwise the reply only goes to the previous poster.  I am
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If you know where the files are then just use File > Open to browse to
the folder and open them.  Once you have done that the last file
opened will be automatically opened again when you restart gnucash,
and for your case where I gather you are using two files they will
also appear in the Recent Files list in gnucash.

Colin

>
> As you might surmise, I am not very computer-savvy.
>
> Thanks,
> Marc
>
> From: Colin Law
> Sent: Thursday, November 19, 2015 4:38 PM
> To: Marc Sopher
> Cc: gnucash-user at gnucash.org
> Subject: Re: location of files when I click "save"
>
> On 19 November 2015 at 21:20, Marc Sopher <mdsophermd at comcast.net> wrote:
>> Help, please.  I inadvertently changed where my GnuCash files go when I
>> click “save,” and now cannot find those files.
>
> When you click Save it will always just overwrite the file that you
> have opened.  Do you mean you want to change the default folder when
> you click Save As?
>
>>  When I open GnuCash, there are no accounts listed now—previously there
>> were 2, for Home and Office.  Could someone please tell me how I can correct
>> this?  I tried “restore previous versions” but that did not fix the problem.
>> If this does get resolved, how do I reset where the files get saved to, so
>> this does not happen again?
>
> Search your PC for the file named
> whatever-you-called-it-when-you-saved-it  (probably something.gnucash
> unless you asked for a different extension).  Possibly something like
> home.gnucash.  How you search for files depends on your operating
> system.
>
> If using Ubuntu then probably something like
> locate *.gnucash
> would find them.
>
> Colin