[GNC] help lost data file

Fred Bone Fred.Bone at dial.pipex.com
Tue Apr 9 05:39:32 EDT 2019


On Monday, April 8, 2019 at 22:55, Eric Rathhaus office said:

> So I used the go to command and got the first screen shot.  opening the
> book folder and I get the second screen shot.  It’s odd that there are
> so few files as I’ve used this program since 2012.  And when I tried to
> open any of the recent gcm files, I get nothing or it says a suitable back
> up can’t be found.  I getting concerned that something terriblest wrong
> happened and that I need to restore from archived cloud version, much
> data.  

You should not be trying to open .gcm files, least of all with Gnucash 
itself. Or indeed anything else in the same directory as the .gcm files.

However, the filename will give you a clue as to the name of your data 
file, which should be elsewhere.




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