[GNC] help lost data file

John Ralls jralls at ceridwen.us
Mon Apr 8 19:09:12 EDT 2019 

Interesting. A little experimentation finds that it's not sufficient to just select the home directory, you must have the home directory as the primary view in Finder. If you're using Icon or List view you can double-click on your home directory to make it primary. If you're in column view you can either switch temporarily to one of the others or you can drag your home directory to the sidebar and then click on it there.

There's another way, though: Select Go>Go to Folder... from the menu and then type into the dialog box ~/Library/Application Support/Gnucash and click Go.

Regards,
John Ralls

> On Apr 8, 2019, at 2:44 PM, Eric Rathhaus office <eric at ewrlaw.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi John - sorry to be so dense.  So those applications are old versions, I believe.  But I navigated to me as user and still no option of show library files appears.  I think I used to store the data in the fold err office data, but all the files in that directory or old.  No matter where I’ve looked, the only files I find that are recent are .log files.  I can’t find any newer files with the .gnucash or the .gcm extensions.  I’m lost here and the tax man is breathing down my neck. 
> 
> Kind regards,
> 
> Eric W. Rathhaus
> Law Office of Eric W. Rathhaus
> 484 Lake Park Avenue, Suite 50
> Oakland, CA 94610
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>> On Apr 6, 2019, at 10:12 PM, John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us> wrote:
>> 
>> Finder displays that option only when the current directory is your home directory. That's the one in Users named after your user-id.
>> 
>> I see that you've installed GnuCash and Finance Quote Update to the MacintoshHD directory, aka root. This is unwise, you should move them to some subdirectory. Applications is a common choice. That also applies to other folders in MacintoshHD. Applications should go in the Applications folder and everything else should be in subdirectories of your Home folder.
>> 
>> Regards,
>> John Ralls
>> 
>> 
>>> On Apr 6, 2019, at 2:00 PM, Eric Rathhaus office <eric at ewrlaw.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Hi John - when I follow your directions and use “show view options” I don’t find any option of show library file.  Perhaps I’m not looking in the correct place.  In Finder, I use the find command which open a box, which I presume is my home directory, click on the “gear”, and select “show view options.”  I attach a couple of screen shots of what I see
>>> 
>>> 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 Apr 2, 2019, at 8:13 PM, John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> 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:
>>>>> 
>>>>> Thanks, John.  I’m using a Mac. Will your directions still apply? 
>>>>> 
>>>>> 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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>>>>> 
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>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>>> On Apr 2, 2019, at 5:02 PM, John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us> wrote:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 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.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Regards,
>>>>>> John Ralls
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> On Apr 2, 2019, at 2:27 PM, Eric Rathhaus office <eric at ewrlaw.com> wrote:
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> 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:
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>> 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
>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>> www.ewrlaw.com
>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>> Confidentiality : 
>>>>>>>>> 
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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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