Help finding files to move to new PC

[David Carlson]

On 9/20/2015 3:36 PM, Colin Law wrote:
> On 20 September 2015 at 20:49, Joe Chando <jchando at rcn.com> wrote:
>> I had a hardware failure (motherboard) so all data should be OK,  I had used
>> checking.gnucash as the file name (or so I thought) that was stored in a
>> checking account folder.
>> When I moved the files to the new PC all the data appears to be there except
>> that everything is listed by it's sub account, there is no longer a top
>> level account.
> This sort of question should really be asked on the gnucash-user list
> rather than the development list (which is for discussion of the s/w
> development).  I suggest you ask it there.  However I am not sure
> exactly what you mean but perhaps if you do View > New Accounts Page
> it will help.  If not then ask there and give a bit more detail on
> exactly what you see.
>
> Colin
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I am not sure whether this actually got transferred to the user mail list. 

Is the user concerned about the name of his data file or the structure
of the account names within the the file.  It sounds to me like the
former.  If that is the case, he may be looking at backups of his data
file.  Then he should sort the files by date and look at a few of the
most recent files.  I seem to recall that somewhere along the line there
was a change to the naming convention for the backups.  File size is not
a good indicator as they may not all be either compressed or uncompressed.

Once he has solved that problem it is time that he updated to a current
version of GnuCash.

David C