moving data

[Derek Atkins]

Just to add a quick summary, the ".gnucash" folder only stores
metadata.  You will need to find your "foo.gnucash" file, somewhere,
which is your actual data file.  It will be co-located with files named
foo.gnucash.YYYYMMDDHHMMSS.gnucash and foo.gnucash.YYYYMMDDHHMMSS.log
which are backup and log files, respectively.

Where these exist on your system is all based on where you saved them;
sort of like how you could store a Word file anywhere.

Good Luck,

-derek

"David T. via gnucash-user" <gnucash-user at gnucash.org> writes:

> Gomer,
> Sorry to hear about the disk crash. That definitely falls under the
> "sucks" category. 
> Please take a look at the Guide,  chapter 2.5
> (https://www.gnucash.org/docs/v2.6/C/gnucash-guide/basics-files1.html)
> for information about gnucash's file locations. 
> HTH, David 
>  
>  
>   On Fri, Jan 13, 2017 at 11:14, Gomer Thomas<gomerthomas at cgomert.com>
> wrote: I recently had a partial disk crash which made my desktop
> computer
> unbootable, but almost all the data on the disk was still readable. I 
> had a new disk and a new copy of the operating system installed on the 
> machine, and I am in the process of reinstalling applications and moving 
> data to the new disk.
>
> The GnuCash data on the old disk appears to be in a folder 
> C:\Users\Gomer\.gnucash (where "Gomer" is my user name). That folder 
> contains subfolders named "books" and "checks" and files named 
> "accelerator-map", "expressions-2.0", "qif-accounts-map" and 
> "sytlesheets-2.0". The "qif-accounts-map" file appears to contain the 
> actual data -- judging from its size, and by looking at it in WordPad. I 
> don't know the file extensions of any of the files. For some reason the 
> file extensions don't show in Windows Explorer, even when I turn on View 
> -> File Name Extensions.
>
> Windows Explorer wouldn't let me create a file named ".gnucash" on the 
> new disk -- claimed it is not a valid file name - but if I started up 
> GnuCash and then exited it, it created a ".gnucash" folder. I then 
> cleared out that folder and  transferred the folders and files from the 
> ".gnucash" folder on the old disk into this ".gnucash" folder on the new 
> disk. However, when I started up GnuCash again, it got to the point 
> where it said "loading data" on the status bar at the bottom, and then 
> it popped up the error message "No suitable backend was found for 
> C:\Users\Gomer\.gnucash\qif-accounts-map". When I dismissed the error 
> message and looked at the GnuCash display, there was no data there -- no 
> Accounts, no nothing.
>
> I wasn't sure at first if the message meant that I did something wrong, 
> or that there is something wrong with the file, or that there is 
> something wrong with the GnuCash installation,  but I downloaded and 
> installed the latest 2.6.15 release to be on the safe side. It produced 
> the same behavior. I also tried starting GnuCash and opening the 
> "qif-accounts-map" file. I got the same error message.
>
> The file looks OK to the naked eye -- starts with the lines
>         ;;; qif-accounts-map
>         ;;; Automatically generated by GnuCash. DO NOT EDIT.
>
> and ends with the lines
>         ;;; GnuCash separator used in these mappings
>         ":"
>
> Can anyone tell me what is going wrong, and what I can do to recover?
>
> I am running Windows 10 on an HP Pavilion desktop PC.
>
> Best regards, Gomer

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