gnucash files subscripts

[John Ralls]

> On Nov 22, 2015, at 3:07 PM, O Cassar <ocassar at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Dear John
> Thank you very much for your very prompt and comprehensive reply. I'll try to locate the files in the back up using the default extension/s you've given me. I don't recall giving instructions for an alternative extension or choosing a folder for saving my files so I'll check using the defaults. I fear that I have failed to set up the Norton 'back up' properly and I have probably lost some 4 yrs of gnucash data including records of transactions dating back over 20yrs!
> Your help is greatly appreciated.

Please remember to copy the list on all replies, and good luck!

Regards,
John Ralls

> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Ralls [mailto:jralls at ceridwen.us] 
> Sent: Saturday, 21 November 2015 1:51 PM
> To: O Cassar
> Cc: gnucash-user at gnucash.org
> Subject: Re: gnucash files subscripts
> 
> 
>> On Nov 21, 2015, at 10:41 PM, O Cassar <ocassar at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Dear Helper
>> 
>> All my computer documents are backed up to an external hard drive 
>> using Norton 360 software. I cannot find gnu files in the 'financial' 
>> folder of the backup disk. I wish to use the search facility but I 
>> don't know the gnu file subscripts used in the gnu 2.43 program. I'm 
>> using the term subscript to denote the 3 letters following the 
>> filename as in .doc for windows Word files, I'm not sure of the correct terminology! Can you help me?
>> 
>> I don't know in which folders gnucash saved all my accounts data on 
>> the computer hard drive. Is it possible that the Norton 360 software 
>> did not backup these files to my external hard drive?
> 
> The correct term is “extension” and GnuCash’s default extension since version 2.4.0 is .gnucash. If you started with version 2.2.x or earlier the default extension is nothing, but it was common to use .xac. Note that that’s a *default* extension: If you supplied a different extension when you first saved the file gnucash would (and will) cheerfully use that.
> 
> GnuCash saved all of your files in whatever folder you told it to when you first created the file. The default would be your home folder, and its name will depend upon what version of Windows you’re using. For Windows Vista and later the home folder is called C:\Users\your-user-name\Documents; for XP it’s C:\Documents and Settings\your-user-name\My Documents, though if you didn’t explicitly set up a user, “your-user-name” will be “Owner”.
> 
> It’s entirely possible that Norton 360 isn’t backing up your GnuCash files: Like all programs it depends on you to know what you want backed up and to set it up accordingly.
> 
> Regards,
> John Ralls
>