moving data

[Gomer Thomas]

Hi Derek,

Thanks to you and David T for answering my question. I scouted around 
and found where I had stored the data file, and it loaded just fine. All 
is well.

Regards, Gomer


On 1/13/2017 9:28 AM, Derek Atkins wrote:
> 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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