[GNC] help lost data file

Tue Apr 2 23:13:39 EDT 2019

Yes, I deliberately wrote them generically. Since you've now specified the OS I can further explain that you'll find the book folder in ~/Library/Application Support/gnucash and that TextEdit is perfectly fine for examining the contents of the directories. In order to get Finder to look in ~/Library you'll need to go to your home directory, click the gear icon in the toolbar, select "Show View Options" and select "Show Library Folder", the last checkbox.

You'll have more success searching for filenames with Finder than with Spotlight; the latter looks at file metadata and contents rather than file names.

Regards,
John Ralls

> On Apr 2, 2019, at 5:39 PM, Eric Rathhaus office <eric at ewrlaw.com> wrote:
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> Thanks, John.  I’m using a Mac. Will your directions still apply? 
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> Kind regards,
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>> On Apr 2, 2019, at 5:02 PM, John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us> wrote:
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>> The books directory in GNC_DATA_DIR (see http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Configuration_Locations to see where that is on your OS) will have a file named after each one that you've had open with a .gcm extension instead of .gnucash. If you left registers open when you closed the .gnucash file the .gcm file will name the accounts for those registers, which might help you narrow down which is the one you want. Once you've figured that out you can use your OS's file-find utility to locate it.
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>> Regards,
>> John Ralls
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>>> On Apr 2, 2019, at 2:27 PM, Eric Rathhaus office <eric at ewrlaw.com> wrote:
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>>> Thanks, John.  My only problem is that I tried opening various files to see if I could find the correct one so that the the “good” file won’t be on the list of four.  Any other ways to find it?
>>> 
>>> Kind regards,
>>> 
>>> Eric W. Rathhaus
>>> Law Office of Eric W. Rathhaus
>>> 484 Lake Park Avenue, Suite 50
>>> Oakland, CA 94610
>>> 415.577.0920 tel
>>> 415.737.0603 fax
>>> 
>>> www.ewrlaw.com
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>>>> On Mar 31, 2019, at 7:35 PM, John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.fremont.ca.us> wrote:
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>>>>> On Mar 31, 2019, at 5:17 PM, Eric Rathhaus office <eric at ewrlaw.com> wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>> Hello - I just downloaded version 3.4. When I opened for 1st time, everything was fine and I began entering transactions into an account ledger.  I wanted to save these transactions but the save button was greyed out.  I thought maybe I needed to point to the correct data file.  When I used “open” from the file menu, and pend the normal base data file, it in fact was old and had no transactions after 2013.  Now I cannot find my data.  All suggestions welcome.  
>>>>> 
>>>>> Kind regards,
>>>>> 
>>>>> Eric W. Rathhaus
>>>>> Law Office of Eric W. Rathhaus
>>>>> 484 Lake Park Avenue, Suite 50
>>>>> Oakland, CA 94610
>>>>> 415.577.0920 tel
>>>>> 415.737.0603 fax
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>>>>> www.ewrlaw.com
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>>>> When you started GnuCash it opened the last file you had used. If you entered transactions into it and that didn't light up the "save" button then you were using a SQL backend, probably SQLite3 because otherwise you would have been asked for a password. When you opened the other file that closed the one you were working on.
>>>> 
>>>> No matter, just click the File menu. At the bottom you'll find the last files you used up to 4 in order of use. Just pick the second one on the list and it will be your "other" file.
>>>> 
>>>> Regards,
>>>> John Ralls
>>>> 
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