Backup Issue

[James Fuller]

I am running Gnucash for myself on my desktop.  I agreed to become my 
automobile club treasurer and computerize their accounting with 
Gnucash.  I am about to decide that I should have just shot myself. I 
set up Gnucash and got all of the files up to date from the manual 
system.   I got on the internet to download Mozilla firefox using the IE 
that was installed with windows. I instantly picked up some kind of 
virus which caused me all kind of problems.  as far as I can tell 
Gnucash was not affected.  I copied all of the Gnucash files from 
c:/programs,
copied the shortcut, and the 2.6.9 setup files to a thumb drive. Then I 
reinstalled Win7 and have a clean disk.

I reinstalled Gnucash 2.6.9 and replaced the Gnucash progam and the 
shortcut files from the thumb drive.  When I attempt to open Gnucash 
using the old files I get a message that
Libgncmod-App-Utils.dall is missing.  It isn't, it is in the bin file 
where it should be.   If I attempt to open with the program files 
created with the new install it opens up but of course
i am missing my old files.  After messing with it for a couple of days I 
decided that I would give up and re-enter the information from the 
paperwork again.  Grrr.  two days of keying again.
I opened the program and keyed in the chart of accounts again.  when I 
tried to save my work the save button didn't seem to work right. I went 
into edit-preferences and made sure that if I tried to close the program 
that I would be warned to save it, thinking that if it didn't work I 
would buy some time to fix the problem.  I went to file and found that 
the close button was greyed out and wouldn't work.  After fooling with 
that issue for a while I found that the save button was greyed out as 
well.  The Save As button is there but I wasn't bright enough to use 
it.  I finally hit the quit button. when I re-opened Gnucash I had lost 
the keying again.

can anyone offer any suggestions?

Thanks,

James Fuller

PS
I used a clean install file, not the one on the infected computer.