help finding my file

[David T.]

Lorrie,
With regard to the files on the desktop, David Carlson's advice is sound.
As for keeping the app on your computer, I suspect that you were opening gnucash from the downloaded disk image; you must drag gnucash.app from that image into the Applications folder to complete the installation. 
David 

 
 
  On Fri, Oct 20, 2017 at 16:32, David Carlson<david.carlson.417 at gmail.com> wrote:   Lorrie, you should have replied to All because I do not have a Mac, and I
cannot help you.  Others here can.

David C

On Fri, Oct 20, 2017 at 12:32 AM, Lorrie E Clemens <lorrieecc at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi David,
> No, I have a Mac.
> Lorrie
>
> On Thu, Oct 19, 2017 at 8:49 PM, David Carlson <
> david.carlson.417 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi Lorrie,
>>
>> Welcome to GnuCash.
>>
>> For this discussion I am assuming that you have installed GnuCash onto a
>> Windows computer.  You only need to do that once.
>>
>> First, create a folder under My Documents called LorrieGnuCashData or
>> something like that.
>>
>> If you have your file explorer set to show file extensions then your
>> Gnucash data files will have .gnucash extension or .gnucash with a 14 digit
>> number and either a .log or .gnucash extension.  yes, there are a lot of
>> them but they are all backups except for the newest one with the short
>> extension name, which is your actual data file.  There is a setting for how
>> long to keep the backups.  You will want to make a separate backup now and
>> then for the day that your hard drive fails.
>>
>> Then undelete all those files that GnuCash cluttered up your desktop with
>> and move them to to that new folder.
>>
>> Finally, pick the newest file that has a simple .gnucash file extension
>> and double click on it.
>>
>> Thereafter you can either double click that filename or the GnuCash Icon.
>>
>> David C
>>
>> On Thu, Oct 19, 2017 at 7:45 PM, Lorrie E Clemens <lorrieecc at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hello,
>>> I am new to GnuCash.
>>> I was able to download all of my information and balance my accounts
>>> earlier this month and I did make a copy.
>>> While I was doing all of the input I ended up having a lot of GnuCash
>>> folders on my desk top.  I put them into the trash but have not deleted
>>> them.
>>> I wanted to put in more payments today, but I am not sure how to access
>>> my
>>> data.  If I click on Gnucash-Intel it cannot pull up my account.
>>> So I do I get back into my account and how do I prevent scores of GnuCash
>>> folders from downloading on my desktop?  Also, how do I install the
>>> GnuCash
>>> app so that it stays on my computer?  Or do I have to go on line to
>>> reinstall every time?
>>> Sincerely,
>>> Lorrie Clemens
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