Windows 10 and lost backup files.

[Mike or Penny Novack]

On 10/24/2015 4:26 AM, bobo wrote:
> Thanks for your replies.
> 1.  Windows 10  does not appear to have a programmes/applications folder, so
> I cannot find any back-ups made since the upgrade.
1) THAT would be a directory where PROGRAMS exist, not DATA.
2) Refer to your "Windows 10 for Dummies" book to learn what it might be 
called in Windows 10. When you go to a new operating system, no good 
reason to believe everything will have the same name.
3) Have you disabled "do not show hidden files and folders"?
    But to repeat, that is NOT the directory in which you gnucash DATA 
would be stored.

> 2. The C/ drive is named Windows 8, and contains historic backups
> pre-upgrade
See "2" above. Since I'm not using Windows 10 I have no idea what the 
"user data" directory (file folder) is named in Windows 10.

3. I would like to be able to nominate a destination folder for the backups

Do you mean the interim backups created by gnucash? Or the backups you 
need to make every so often of ALL of your user data?
> 4. Gnucash opens just fine, but the destination folder shown in the header
> bar is not searchable via file explorer
See "3" above. However I think you are talking about the target of the 
shortcut for opening the program. Programs are NOT data.

Michael D Novack

PS: For 2, while I don't KNOW what Windows 10 uses, I would be willing 
to place a small wager that whatever name you chose as a user (for your 
log in to Windows 10) will be in the path name. But again, until you 
have disabled "do not show hidden files and folders" you can't say what 
"file explorer" will or will not show you. The default as Windows OS's 
are shipped is "do not show".