Help finding files to move to new PC

[David Carlson]

On 9/20/2015 8:37 PM, David T. wrote:
> David, I think that the OP stated his problem was not seeing top level accounts in his data file.
>
> I seem to recall at some point in GC’s history that there were circumstances where the top level accounts were being suppressed on some operating systems. I mention this because the OP said the original GC file was under 2.2.9, and I will hazard a guess that they are trying to directly load the file in 2.6.7, which may be the source of the problem. 
>
> I don’t recall the specifics of the scenario that I am describing, since it was under Windows, and I am not a Windows user, but perhaps someone who experienced this will remember and help the OP.
>
> David T.
>
>> On Sep 20, 2015, at 6:25 PM, David Carlson <david.carlson.417 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> 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. 
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>> 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
>>
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I just looked up the release 2.29. It was done in Feb 2009, which was
about 2 years before I started using GnuCash.  Still, 6 years isn't
really a long time.

David C