[GNC] cannot open data file

[Jean-David Beyer]

On 2/13/22 12:00, Michael or Penny Novack wrote:
> On 2/13/2022 10:12 AM, suk wah Bernstein wrote:
>> thanks for help.
>>
> You didn't bother to tell us your OS (makes a difference on how you find 
> lost files)
> 
> This isn't really a gnucash question but more of a "I think I know the 
> name and/or extension of a file but can't find it" (don't know the full 
> name aka "file path")

True. In Linux, the locate command can find these things.

$ locate -i gnucash | grep JeanDavid

/home/jeandavid8/.gnucash/.gnucash/books/JeanDavid.2006.gnucash.gcm
/home/jeandavid8/.gnucash/.gnucash/books/JeanDavid.2006.gnucash.gcm.HIDE
/home/jeandavid8/.local/share/gnucash/.gnucash/books
     /JeanDavid.2006.gnucash.gcm
/home/jeandavid8/.local/share/gnucash/.gnucash/books
     /JeanDavid.2006.gnucash.gcm.HIDE
/home/jeandavid8/.local/share/gnucash/books/JeanDavid.2006.gnucash.gcm
/home/jeandavid8/GnuCash/JeanDavid.2006.gnucash
/home/jeandavid8/GnuCash/JeanDavid.2006.gnucash.20220114012744.log
/home/jeandavid8/GnuCash/JeanDavid.2006.gnucash.20220114090845.log
/home/jeandavid8/GnuCash/JeanDavid.2006.gnucash.20220114100724.log
[snip]
/home/jeandavid8/GnuCash/JeanDavid.2006.gnucash.20220212132057.log
/home/jeandavid8/GnuCash/JeanDavid.2006.gnucash.20220212220250.log
/home/jeandavid8/GnuCash/JeanDavid.2006.gnucash.20220212220441.gnucash
/home/jeandavid8/GnuCash/JeanDavid.2006.gnucash.20220212220442.log

> The question about backups was again not really about gnucash. It's about ALL of the user data on your computer.
If you don't have a data backup process in place, it isn't a matter of 
if some of your data will get lost but when.


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