[GNC] Updated to 3.1 - lost lots & report

[Ken Schneider]

On 06/14/2018 04:37 AM, John Bonnett wrote:
> From:
> Ethan Swint <eswint at vt.edu>
> 
> Date:
> 14/06/2018 3:18 PM
> 
>> Hi -
>>
>> I just made the jump from 2.6 to 3.1, but I found that I lost all of 
>> my lot
>> info for stocks and my saved report configurations. My google-fu is not
>> good WRT scanning the list, so if any have encountered similar situation,
>> I'd be much obliged.
>>
>> Thanks!
> 
> I did the upgrade to 3.1 and also lost my reports. Here is what I did to 
> get them back after looking at some comments by others on the mailing 
> list. By the way I am on Windows 10.
> 
> I searched using Jam UltraSearch for files and folders with "gnucash" in 
> them. I found quite a few but one in particular was ".gnucash", notice 
> the initial "." which is a convention in Linux for a configuration 
> folder. I found it at this path
> 
> "C:\Users\<username>\.gnucash"

The '.' preceding a file or folder in unix or linux treats the file or 
folder as hidden not a configuration file or folder.

Ken