[GNC] lost data

Michael or Penny Novack stepbystepfarm at comcast.net
Fri Jan 25 10:23:07 EST 2019


On 1/24/2019 10:55 PM, Chris Good wrote:
> Hi John,
>
> I'm pretty sure there is no secret list of all the gnucash data files you've
> opened.
This is not a different problem than finding OTHER data on your computer 
(data created by other apps, say a document created by a word 
processor). Your operating system provides tools to find files by 
various "hooks" (name searches, date created or modified, etc. )

So let's star with name. Do you have ANY ideas of what you might have 
named your data files? How about the file extension? Would all of your 
gnucash data files ended with the same .xyz? (say .gnucash). Even if 
your DATA file might not (some of mine don't) gnucash would have been 
creating backup and log files in the same directory (file folder) so you 
could search for all files ending .log or .gnucash --- try the latter as 
other applications might be creating files ending in .log but unlikely 
anything but gnucash creating ones ending in .gnucash
REMEMBER --- if you weren't naming your data files to end .gnucash, the 
ones you find in that directory ending .gnucash are not what you want, 
just getting you to the right directory and showing you earlier parts of 
the name you forgot.

Michael D Novack

PS -- once you know the NAME of your data file, you can start gnucash 
and tell it (file=>open) to open THAT file instead of selecting from the 
list of four.


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