[GNC] Trying to download Gnucash data Files

[Jose A. Lorido III]

Hello all,

Is there anyone in the Miami, FL area that could help with this on a
consultancy-fee basis?

Thanks for any input............


Kind Regards
*Jose A. Lorido III*
Managing Director

*Infrastructure Engineering & Procurement Company LLC (IEPCO)*
*Continental International Supply Company (CISCO)*
*FHC Atares Group LLC*
100 Edgewater Drive, #345
Coral Gables, FL 33133
Tel: (305) 215-5076
E-Mails: IEPCO at aol.com, ciscosupply at aol.com, FHCAtares at gmail.com
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On Sun, Apr 11, 2021 at 1:17 PM Jose A. Lorido III <fhcatares at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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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