Windows 10 and lost backup files.

[John Ralls]

> On Oct 24, 2015, at 5:03 AM, Mike or Penny Novack <mpnovack at mtdata.com> wrote:
> 
> 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".
> 

Both the program directories and home directories are accessible from Windows Explorer, as they have always been. They’re just not on the default sidebar, you have to navigate to them starting from “Local Computer”. GnuCash installs itself into C:\Program Files (x86)\gnucash as always, and Win10 has adopted the Mac convention of putting the user directories in C:\Users.

The user’s primary documents folder, C:\Users\YourName\Documents, *does* have a shortcut in the sidebar and is the logical place to put a folder for your GnuCash data files.

If GnuCash is starting up and opening the data file then its path hasn’t changed. To find that path, select File>Save As and examine the path just below the filename text entry and above the directory listing.

Regards,
John Ralls