gnucash-user Digest, Vol 176, Issue 55
Colin Law
clanlaw at gmail.com
Tue Nov 28 02:49:41 EST 2017
Look at the timestamps of the .gnucash files that have a name and lots
of digits (those are the backups of your data). Find the latest of
these. The likely cause is that you have been using one of the
backups as your actual backups so you have backups of backups. Do not
give up, your file is almost certainly there.
Colin
On 28 November 2017 at 03:44, Ian McAllister <purchase at smarthomebiz.com> wrote:
> Thanks David,
>
> I searched my backup disk, and found 473 instances of .gnucash but no files
> with the right name, but without the .gcm at the end.
>
> I suppose I'll just have to start with a new installation, and put in data
> from my bank for five months.
>
> Ian McAllister
>
>
> On 28/11/2017 01:00 AM, gnucash-user-request at gnucash.org wrote:
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>> Today's Topics:
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>> 1. GnuCash 2.7.2 released (John Ralls)
>> 2. Re: bank entries (Christine )
>> 3. Re: bank entries (Colin Law)
>> 4. RE: bank entries (Ken Pyzik)
>> 5. Re: bank entries (DaveC49)
>> 6. RE: bank entries (Christine )
>> 7. Re: bank entries (David Carlson)
>> 8. Re: bank entries (Maf. King)
>> 9. recover GNUcash data after windows crash (Ian McAllister)
>> 10. Re: recover GNUcash data after windows crash (David T.)
>>
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>> Message: 1
>> Date: Sun, 26 Nov 2017 10:34:38 -0800
>> From: John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us>
>> To: Gnucash Users <gnucash-user at gnucash.org>
>> Subject: GnuCash 2.7.2 released
>> Message-ID: <F498E742-98DF-45CE-9DBE-244B25B06923 at ceridwen.us>
>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8
>>
>> The Gnucash Development Team is pleased to release Gnucash 2.7.2, the
>> third release of an unstable series leading to Gnucash 2.8.0.
>>
>> This release is UNSTABLE and SHOULD NOT BE USED in production.
>>
>> This release changes file locations, binding APIs, report options, and can
>> make your data file no longer compatible with previous versions. See the
>> Update Notes Page for details.
>>
>> See the KNOWN PROBLEMS list at the bottom of the announcement.
>>
>> Bugs fixed in this release
>>
>> ? Bug 734865 - Assign as Payment... can silently 'unpay' a payed
>> invoice
>> ? if the selected transaction is already linked to an
>> existing payment, the payment dialog will present this payment again (same
>> partner, post-to account, same selected document(s), same amount, memo, and
>> transfer account).
>> ? if the selected transaction is not linked to an existing
>> business transaction the logic will make a best guess as to whether the
>> payment should be for a customer or vendor.
>> ? in both situations if the existing transaction has
>> multiple splits that can be considered as transfer (or 'payment') splits the
>> payment dialog can't work with it (it can only deal with one transfer
>> split). In this case the user will be informed that only one valid transfer
>> split will be retained and the others ignored.
>> ? the other thing the payment dialog can't handle are APAR
>> type splits that are not associated to a lot at all. In case of transactions
>> not part of a business transaction they will be silently ignored on the
>> assumptions these were manually entered transactions with the intention to
>> be linked to business transactions. On the other hand if such a split is
>> part of a transaction that is also linked to a business payment already, a
>> warning will be issued these splits will be removed from the new payment.
>> ? Bug 778692 - Assign as payment should work for employee expense
>> vouchers
>> ? if gnucash can deduce a partner from the transaction
>> that partner will be proposed this works for all transactions that are part
>> of a business transaction already and will correctly detect pre-existing
>> customer, vendor and employee payments
>> ? if no partner can be deduced gnucash will assume the
>> transaction to be a vendor or customer payment based on the sign
>> ? in all cases the user can change the partner type in the
>> payment window that's presented to any of customer, vendor or employee to
>> correct gnucash' suggestion.
>> ? Bug 784623 - GNUCash does not work with sql backend.
>> Wherin the problem is that MySQL's TIMESTAMP has a date range of
>> 1970-01-01 00:00:01 to 2038-01-19 03:14:07 and is unable to handle time_t of
>> 0. MySQL's TIMESTAMP also assumes that input is in the server's timezone and
>> adjusts it to UTC. GnuCash has already done that conversion.
>>
>> ? Bug 789608 - Compilation problems when linking libraries.
>> ? Bug 789928 - FTBFS with libdbi 0.9.0-5 on Debian.
>> ? Bug 790550 - FTBFS: missing __init__.py
>> Some other fixes not associated with reported bugs:
>>
>> ? SQL parameter quoting is corrected in the backend so that only
>> string parameters are quoted. This caused trouble when trying to store SQL
>> NULL; the string 'NULL' is different from the value NULL.
>> ? SQL table versions weren't set consistently and a bogus version
>> test could cause some tables to be not loaded.
>> ? Better, more targeted handling of MySQL's penchant for setting
>> date-time fields to "0000-00-00 00:00:00" if it doesn't like the input. This
>> should be much less common thanks to fixing Bug 784623.
>> ? Major repairs to the "Dense Calendar" date selector.
>> ? Fix colors on graph reports so that the selections work and the
>> defaults are no longer transparent.
>> ? Two large batches of styling fixes for Gtk3 from Bob Fewell.
>> ? Fix the guile-compiled path in the environment file so that
>> GnuCash can start on Windows.
>> ? Convert the graphical reports to use GnuCash's rational numbers
>> instead of doubles for better accuracy.
>> KNOWN PROBLEMS:
>>
>> ? On Microsoft Windows starting the AQBanking Setup Wizard crashes
>> GnuCash.
>> ? test-import-bayes built with autotools intermittently fails at
>> line 381, where the returned value is 1 instead of the expected 6.
>> Getting GnuCash for Windows and MacOS X
>>
>> GnuCash is provided for both Microsoft Windows XP? and later and MacOS X
>> 10.9 (Mavericks)? and later in pre-built, all-in-one packages. An installer
>> is provided for Microsoft Windows? while the MacOS X? package is a disk
>> image containing a drag-and-drop application bundle.
>>
>> SourceForge:
>>
>> ? Download GnuCash for Win32
>> ? Download GnuCash for Mac-Intel
>> Github
>>
>> ? Download GnuCash for Win32
>> ? Download GnuCash for Mac-Intel
>> Getting GnuCash as source code
>>
>> If you want to compile GnuCash 2.7.2 for yourself, the source code can be
>> downloaded from:
>>
>> ? Sourceforge: bzip2 tarball, gzip tarball, all files.
>> ? Github: bzip2 tarball, gzip tarball WARNING Do not try to use
>> the github-generated files labelled "Source Code". They have not been
>> processed with swig and will not build.
>> ? You can also checkout the sources directly from the git
>> repository as described here.
>> The SHA256 Hashes for the downloadable files are:
>>
>> ? baa6bae13918da62be58fe09d904ccf38893607e57dae4eba53db4ff96ab61b3
>> gnucash-2.7.2.tar.bz2
>> ? 567e654f24e611a780ef66d3e92c0da695196594c7611bbfa99e550e04a2ca87
>> gnucash-2.7.2.tar.gz
>> ? ea5ec52e896e05eec4659088866dca5132374f5e9ed424a4e2ad4d4d072b7be5
>> gnucash-2.7.2.setup.exe
>> ? 5fe6fab0374ca77a86257ee83ee07288909c8f6b256b790ab8b1ff6e054eafff
>> Gnucash-Intel-2.7.2-1.dmg
>> Please consult the README.dependencies file in the sources for the
>> required dependencies and versions needed to build GnuCash from source.
>> Additional information on building GnuCash may be found in the Wiki
>>
>> Getting the documentation
>>
>> The documentation is available at Documentation page of the GnuCash
>> website. Please refer to the "Nightly Builds" section at the bottom of the
>> page.
>>
>> About the Program
>>
>> GnuCash is a free, open source accounting program released under the GNU
>> General Public License (GPL) and available for GNU/Linux, *BSD, Solaris, Mac
>> OSX and Microsoft Windows. Programming on GnuCash began in 1997, and its
>> first stable release was in 1998.
>>
>> ------------------------------
>>
>> Message: 2
>> Date: Sun, 26 Nov 2017 21:52:12 -0000
>> From: "Christine " <cmaloney4 at talktalk.net>
>> To: <gnucash-user at gnucash.org>
>> Subject: Re: bank entries
>> Message-ID: <007101d36700$d143d1a0$73cb74e0$@net>
>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
>>
>> Whenever I post a deposit to the bank, it makes a withdrawal of the same
>> amount and I cannot get it to just take the entry, can anyone help pls
>>
>> Christine
>>
>>
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>> Message: 3
>> Date: Sun, 26 Nov 2017 22:06:55 +0000
>> From: Colin Law <clanlaw at gmail.com>
>> To: Christine <cmaloney4 at talktalk.net>
>> Cc: "gnucash-user at gnucash.org" <gnucash-user at gnucash.org>
>> Subject: Re: bank entries
>> Message-ID:
>>
>> <CAL=0gLsYi8wHMsnv5Mu92+Zn_LkuKiH0oXxhXDL9YUmZ3fMOag at mail.gmail.com>
>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8"
>>
>> Have you read the tutorial and concepts guide? [1]
>> It sounds like you are making a basic mistake in how you are entering it.
>>
>> Colin
>>
>> [1] http://www.gnucash.org/docs/v2.6/C/gnucash-guide/
>>
>> On 26 November 2017 at 21:52, Christine via gnucash-user
>> <gnucash-user at gnucash.org> wrote:
>>>
>>> Whenever I post a deposit to the bank, it makes a withdrawal of the same
>>> amount and I cannot get it to just take the entry, can anyone help pls
>>>
>>> Christine
>>>
>>>
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>> Message: 4
>> Date: Sun, 26 Nov 2017 14:20:37 -0800
>> From: "Ken Pyzik" <pyz01 at cox.net>
>> To: "'Christine'" <cmaloney4 at talktalk.net>
>> Cc: <gnucash-user at gnucash.org>
>> Subject: RE: bank entries
>> Message-ID: <001d01d36704$c986a150$5c93e3f0$@cox.net>
>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
>>
>> Christine -- without seeing the entry it is difficult to determine why is
>> it
>> doing what you say it is. As a matter of principle, you must remember
>> that
>> there must be a corresponding "other-side" to your deposit entry. While
>> this may seem counter-intuitive, your deposit to your bank account needs
>> to
>> have a corresponding (and opposite) entry to another account. The way I
>> have mine is I have my bank account (account type BANK) and another
>> account
>> called Income-deposits (account type INCOME). When I make a deposit to my
>> bank account the "transfer account" (or other side of the entry) is to the
>> income account. You will notice that the deposit to a BANK type account
>> will be on the "left side" (thus increasing the balance of the bank
>> account)
>> and the entry will be on the "right side" of the income-deposits account
>> which will be income and thus increase the value of this account.
>>
>> So it is very much dependent upon how you have setup your accounts.
>>
>> Hope that makes sense.
>>
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: gnucash-user [mailto:gnucash-user-bounces+pyz01=cox.net at gnucash.org]
>> On Behalf Of Christine via gnucash-user
>> Sent: Sunday, November 26, 2017 1:52 PM
>> To: gnucash-user at gnucash.org
>> Subject: Re: bank entries
>>
>> Whenever I post a deposit to the bank, it makes a withdrawal of the same
>> amount and I cannot get it to just take the entry, can anyone help pls
>>
>> Christine
>>
>>
>>
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>> Message: 5
>> Date: Sun, 26 Nov 2017 19:20:29 -0700 (MST)
>> From: DaveC49 <davidcousens at bigpond.com>
>> To: gnucash-user at gnucash.org
>> Subject: Re: bank entries
>> Message-ID: <1511749229530-0.post at n4.nabble.com>
>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
>>
>> Christine,
>>
>> Gnucash is a double entry accounting system. What this means is that any
>> transaction affects at least two accounts. For example when you purchase
>> something your bank account is credited by the amount of the purchase any
>> purchase is also an expense so an expense account has to be debited by the
>> amount of the purchase in the second component of the transaction. These
>> two
>> components of the one transactions are referred to in Gnucash as "splits".
>> The same methodology is applied to any other sort of transaction, it will
>> always consist of at least two components ( and sometimes more) affecting
>> at
>> least two accounts. In any single transaction the sum of the debit and the
>> sum of the credit components of the splits of that transaction must be
>> equal
>>
>> The Gnucash Tutorial and Concepts guide
>> (https://www.gnucash.org/docs/v2.6/C/gnucash-guide/) along with the
>> Wikipedia articles on double entry bookkeeping
>> (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double-entry_bookkeeping_system will give
>> you
>> some background information. Gnucash follows what is called the Accounting
>> Equation or American approach in this article. The article on the
>> Accounting
>> equation (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accounting_equation) also provides
>> some useful background.
>>
>> That said, it is possible when you are entering a transaction and create
>> the
>> deposit split to your bank account (this will be a debit to that account
>> if
>> you use the accounting terms) what you are seeing is the other
>> component/split of the transaction being automatically created. If you
>> have
>> not yet created appropriate income accounts, it may be assigning your
>> bank
>> account as the default account for this second split which will be a
>> credit. If you click in the account field in the second split, you should
>> be
>> able to select a different account from your chart of accounts.
>>
>> For a deposit to your bank account, the account for the second split would
>> normally be an income account for money coming from an external source or
>> another asset account if you are transferring money between accounts ofr
>> example.
>>
>>
>> David
>>
>>
>>
>> -----
>> David Cousens
>> --
>> Sent from: http://gnucash.1415818.n4.nabble.com/GnuCash-User-f1415819.html
>>
>>
>> ------------------------------
>>
>> Message: 6
>> Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2017 02:33:50 -0000
>> From: "Christine " <cmaloney4 at talktalk.net>
>> To: "'DaveC49'" <davidcousens at bigpond.com>, <gnucash-user at gnucash.org>
>> Subject: RE: bank entries
>> Message-ID: <008601d36728$29bcace0$7d3606a0$@net>
>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
>>
>> Hi Dave
>> My accounts are Cash, Bank, Income, various expenses, and 2 people who I
>> pay
>> money too and who pay to the bank.
>> IF I balance one of the accounts another goes wrong. All I want to do is
>> add
>> my bank and my cash and let gnucash do the rest (ie an income and
>> expenditure report) but it is not working. Reading the literature I just
>> get
>> confused as I am used to DR and CR.
>> Thanks anyway maybe I should look for an easier program if anyone knows of
>> one
>>
>> Christine
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: gnucash-user
>> [mailto:gnucash-user-bounces+cmaloney4=talktalk.net at gnucash.org] On Behalf
>> Of DaveC49
>> Sent: 27 November 2017 02:20
>> To: gnucash-user at gnucash.org
>> Subject: Re: bank entries
>>
>> Christine,
>>
>> Gnucash is a double entry accounting system. What this means is that any
>> transaction affects at least two accounts. For example when you purchase
>> something your bank account is credited by the amount of the purchase any
>> purchase is also an expense so an expense account has to be debited by the
>> amount of the purchase in the second component of the transaction. These
>> two
>> components of the one transactions are referred to in Gnucash as "splits".
>> The same methodology is applied to any other sort of transaction, it will
>> always consist of at least two components ( and sometimes more) affecting
>> at
>> least two accounts. In any single transaction the sum of the debit and the
>> sum of the credit components of the splits of that transaction must be
>> equal
>>
>> The Gnucash Tutorial and Concepts guide
>> (https://www.gnucash.org/docs/v2.6/C/gnucash-guide/) along with the
>> Wikipedia articles on double entry bookkeeping
>> (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double-entry_bookkeeping_system will give
>> you
>> some background information. Gnucash follows what is called the Accounting
>> Equation or American approach in this article. The article on the
>> Accounting
>> equation (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accounting_equation) also provides
>> some useful background.
>>
>> That said, it is possible when you are entering a transaction and create
>> the
>> deposit split to your bank account (this will be a debit to that account
>> if
>> you use the accounting terms) what you are seeing is the other
>> component/split of the transaction being automatically created. If you
>> have
>> not yet created appropriate income accounts, it may be assigning your
>> bank
>> account as the default account for this second split which will be a
>> credit. If you click in the account field in the second split, you should
>> be
>> able to select a different account from your chart of accounts.
>>
>> For a deposit to your bank account, the account for the second split would
>> normally be an income account for money coming from an external source or
>> another asset account if you are transferring money between accounts ofr
>> example.
>>
>>
>> David
>>
>>
>>
>> -----
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>> --
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>> Message: 7
>> Date: Sun, 26 Nov 2017 22:49:24 -0800
>> From: David Carlson <david.carlson.417 at gmail.com>
>> To: Christine <cmaloney4 at talktalk.net>
>> Cc: DaveC49 <davidcousens at bigpond.com>, "gnucash-user at gnucash.org"
>> <gnucash-user at gnucash.org>
>> Subject: Re: bank entries
>> Message-ID:
>>
>> <CADYgSbmy8N2c9Xhe70MFqjHKfNiTZp_8TZBKcUikOCdP35bODg at mail.gmail.com>
>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8"
>>
>> Christine,
>>
>> If you receive income you might deposit it into the bank. If you spend
>> money for groceries, you use cash. If you withdraw money from the bank
>> you
>> transfer from bank to cash.
>>
>> That is what double entry is about.
>>
>> David C,
>>
>> On Sun, Nov 26, 2017 at 6:33 PM, Christine via gnucash-user <
>> gnucash-user at gnucash.org> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Dave
>>> My accounts are Cash, Bank, Income, various expenses, and 2 people who I
>>> pay
>>> money too and who pay to the bank.
>>> IF I balance one of the accounts another goes wrong. All I want to do is
>>> add
>>> my bank and my cash and let gnucash do the rest (ie an income and
>>> expenditure report) but it is not working. Reading the literature I just
>>> get
>>> confused as I am used to DR and CR.
>>> Thanks anyway maybe I should look for an easier program if anyone knows
>>> of
>>> one
>>>
>>> Christine
>>>
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: gnucash-user
>>> [mailto:gnucash-user-bounces+cmaloney4=talktalk.net at gnucash.org] On
>>> Behalf
>>> Of DaveC49
>>> Sent: 27 November 2017 02:20
>>> To: gnucash-user at gnucash.org
>>> Subject: Re: bank entries
>>>
>>> Christine,
>>>
>>> Gnucash is a double entry accounting system. What this means is that any
>>> transaction affects at least two accounts. For example when you purchase
>>> something your bank account is credited by the amount of the purchase any
>>> purchase is also an expense so an expense account has to be debited by
>>> the
>>> amount of the purchase in the second component of the transaction. These
>>> two
>>> components of the one transactions are referred to in Gnucash as
>>> "splits".
>>> The same methodology is applied to any other sort of transaction, it will
>>> always consist of at least two components ( and sometimes more) affecting
>>> at
>>> least two accounts. In any single transaction the sum of the debit and
>>> the
>>> sum of the credit components of the splits of that transaction must be
>>> equal
>>>
>>> The Gnucash Tutorial and Concepts guide
>>> (https://www.gnucash.org/docs/v2.6/C/gnucash-guide/) along with the
>>> Wikipedia articles on double entry bookkeeping
>>> (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double-entry_bookkeeping_system will give
>>> you
>>> some background information. Gnucash follows what is called the
>>> Accounting
>>> Equation or American approach in this article. The article on the
>>> Accounting
>>> equation (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accounting_equation) also
>>> provides
>>> some useful background.
>>>
>>> That said, it is possible when you are entering a transaction and create
>>> the
>>> deposit split to your bank account (this will be a debit to that account
>>> if
>>> you use the accounting terms) what you are seeing is the other
>>> component/split of the transaction being automatically created. If you
>>> have
>>> not yet created appropriate income accounts, it may be assigning your
>>> bank
>>> account as the default account for this second split which will be a
>>> credit. If you click in the account field in the second split, you should
>>> be
>>> able to select a different account from your chart of accounts.
>>>
>>> For a deposit to your bank account, the account for the second split
>>> would
>>> normally be an income account for money coming from an external source or
>>> another asset account if you are transferring money between accounts ofr
>>> example.
>>>
>>>
>>> David
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> -----
>>> David Cousens
>>> --
>>> Sent from:
>>> http://gnucash.1415818.n4.nabble.com/GnuCash-User-f1415819.html
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>>
>> Message: 8
>> Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2017 08:27:01 +0000
>> From: "Maf. King" <maf at chilwell.net>
>> To: Christine <cmaloney4 at talktalk.net>
>> Cc: gnucash-user at gnucash.org
>> Subject: Re: bank entries
>> Message-ID: <4887569.lTmUt3ZDRC at janus>
>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8"
>>
>> On Monday, 27 November 2017 02:33:50 GMT Christine via gnucash-user wrote:
>>>
>>> Reading the literature I just get
>>> confused as I am used to DR and CR.
>>>
>>> Christine
>>>
>> Hi Christine,
>>
>> if you are used to the terminology of DR and CR to describe the sides of a
>> transaction, then perhaps you would be helped by enabling "use formal
>> accounting labels" in the preferences of GC. This will put Debit & Credit
>> as
>> the column headings in the account registers, rather than the more
>> descriptive
>> (but variable) headings such as "withdrawal" etc.
>>
>> Edit Menu -> Preferences -> Accounts Tab.
>>
>> HTH,
>> Maf.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> ------------------------------
>>
>> Message: 9
>> Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2017 22:24:07 +0800
>> From: Ian McAllister <purchase at smarthomebiz.com>
>> To: gnucash-user at gnucash.org
>> Subject: recover GNUcash data after windows crash
>> Message-ID: <37f26e9f-5e93-0b85-7fb2-51c537b8aa8c at smarthomebiz.com>
>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed
>>
>> Hi, I think I sent my earlier message to the wrong address.
>>
>> My motherboard crashed and I needed a new one and re-installed Windows.
>> Fortunately I had a backup of my main folders.
>>
>> I copied the GNUcash folder across from the backup then re-installed
>> over the top of it, in the hope that I would then have all my data files
>> included, but it didn't work that way.
>>
>> So I found \Users\myusernam\.gnucash\books which contained my old files
>> AccountsBusiness.gnucash.gcm
>> Personal.gnucash.gcm
>> I copied these and ran the program, which identified the two files. I
>> highlighted and clicked each in turn, and was told both times
>> No suitable backend was found for
>> file://C:\Users\#######\.gnucash\books\AccountsBusiness.gnucash.gcm.
>>
>> How can I get back my books?
>>
>> Ian McAllister
>>
>>
>> ------------------------------
>>
>> Message: 10
>> Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2017 19:32:14 +0500
>> From: "David T." <sunfish62 at yahoo.com>
>> To: helpian at smarthomebiz.com
>> Cc: gnucash-user at gnucash.org
>> Subject: Re: recover GNUcash data after windows crash
>> Message-ID: <55FA98AE-3C9F-4AD4-A42E-793685A7C991 at yahoo.com>
>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8
>>
>> Ian,
>>
>> Gcm files are not your data files. They are metadata files. Similarly, the
>> ?.gnucash? folder is the system folder that holds this metadata. Your data
>> files (AccontsBusiness.gnucash and Personal.gnucash) are somewhere else on
>> your backup. Put those on your new machine (not in the ?.gnucash foldr?,
>> BTW), and you?ll have your data.
>>
>> HTH,
>> David
>>
>>> On Nov 27, 2017, at 7:24 PM, Ian McAllister <purchase at smarthomebiz.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi, I think I sent my earlier message to the wrong address.
>>>
>>> My motherboard crashed and I needed a new one and re-installed Windows.
>>> Fortunately I had a backup of my main folders.
>>>
>>> I copied the GNUcash folder across from the backup then re-installed over
>>> the top of it, in the hope that I would then have all my data files
>>> included, but it didn't work that way.
>>>
>>> So I found \Users\myusernam\.gnucash\books which contained my old files
>>> AccountsBusiness.gnucash.gcm
>>> Personal.gnucash.gcm
>>> I copied these and ran the program, which identified the two files. I
>>> highlighted and clicked each in turn, and was told both times
>>> No suitable backend was found for
>>> file://C:\Users\#######\.gnucash\books\AccountsBusiness.gnucash.gcm.
>>>
>>> How can I get back my books?
>>>
>>> Ian McAllister
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