Help! Lost files

[Maf. King]

On Monday, 3 April 2017 10:15:02 BST Anita Graves wrote:
> Friends,
> 
> I did two things that caused a crisis in my life:
> 
> 1)  I renamed a file
> 
> 2) I moved the files around in different folders
> 
> Now,
> I can’t open or find any of my files- files by the same name are empty
> 
> I do not know how to take information from a log and put it back into a
> file, if that is what I am supposed to do.
> 
> What can I do?
> 


Hi Anita,

Did you rename & move your main gnucash data file?  If so, and you can remember 
where you put it and what you called it, then from within GC file->open and 
navigate to the new filename & location and you should be just fine.  (if you 
are on a MAC, then finding the file and clicking it won't work - there's an odd 
interaction in OSX that means GC always opens the previously-open file, so you 
must File->open in GC)

If you started renaming files elsewhere on your system, then your problems are 
somewhat larger....

HTH,
Maf.