[GNC] Trying to download Gnucash data Files

Jose A. Lorido III fhcatares at gmail.com
Sun Apr 11 13:17:05 EDT 2021


Hi John,

Thanks for reaching out...

What I meant by Desktop was that I have, apart from my laptop, a Desktop
Computer where the Gnucash Program is also installed.

I went to the link you suggested and saw that the default for data files
are at:  MyAccounts.gnucash.20140131150812.gnucash. The Folder recovered
contains a Gnucash Folder but I cannot see any .gnucash files.

I took a snippet of the recovered files from my HDD drive that was damaged
and have attached it, and you can see that the Gnucash folder contains 2
.dll files. Are these my data files, or could they be inside any other
folder that was recovered?

Appreciate your help,

Jose



On Sun, Apr 11, 2021 at 12:51 PM John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us> wrote:

>
>
> > On Apr 11, 2021, at 9:33 AM, Jose A. Lorido III <fhcatares at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > To whomever may be able to help,
> >
> > I have been using Gnucash for my business as well as my personal
> accounting
> > on the HDD drive of my laptop. A few weeks ago, my HDD was damaged and
> > unfortunately, I had not backed up any of my data for the previous 3
> years.
> >
> > I sent my damaged HDD to SalvageData and they were able to recover a
> number
> > of files, some of these belonging to the Gnucash program.
> >
> > The question would be to anyone that may be able to help me is:
> >
> > 1) Which files/folders contain my data files (what would be the
> extensions
> > I should look for)?
> >
> > and
> >
> > 2) How would I go about downloading them into my new SSD drive on my
> > laptop, or I could also download them to my desktop which also contains
> the
> > Gnucash program?
> >
> > Any help or guidance would be greatly appreciated,
>
> 1) See https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Backup.
>
> Your Desktop is just a folder in your user directory on the new SSD. We
> often get complaints about clutter from  users who put their GnuCash data
> file on the desktop so we recommend putting it in dedicated folder in their
> user or documents folder. Mine is cleverly named "Accounts".
>
> The data recovery service should give you instructions about how to
> transfer the recovered files to your computer.
>
> Regards,
> John Ralls
>
>
>
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