help finding my file

[Derek Atkins]

Hi,

Lorrie E Clemens <lorrieecc at gmail.com> writes:

> OK, so I removed the Gnucash that was in my applications folder and
> mover the Gnucash-2-6.18 in. I double clicked on that and I get the
> Gnucash window that pops up the the small window that says free
> accounting software. But I still get that the file/URI/users... cannot
> be found. I tried launching from the Gnucash icon on my desk top and I
> get the same thing.
> I don’t know what you mean by You will either need to replace it, or
> File Open the new location.

GnuCash on Mac will *always* try to re-open the last file it had opened.
It will do this regardless of how you start gnucash.  Unlike other apps,
even if you double-click on a data file, GnuCash WILL NOT open that data
file -- it will still try opening the last file you had opened.

Because you cleaned off your Desktop that file no longer exists where
GnuCash is looking for it -- hense, it's popping up a dialog to tell you
that it can't be found.

So you have two thing you can do:

1) You can replace the file.  If it's looking in
e.g. <Desktop>/MyFinances.gnucash then you can just find your file
wherever you moved it (deleted it?) and then put it back onto your
Desktop.  Then GnuCash will find it again.

or

2) You can bypass the dialog, and then from GnuCash go the FILE menu,
click on OPEN (File -> Open) and then browse to the location of your
data file.

Regardless, I would suggest that you not store your data file on the
Desktop.  Make a folder and put it in there.

Good Luck,

> Lorrie

-derek

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