It will help a lot if you can provide the information Stephen Butler requested, i.e OS and version GnuCash and version and how you installed it.
The datafile for GnuCash is not generally in a hidden directory which is what a directory .gnucash would be.The .gnucash hidden directory contains user config data AFAIK from a version of GnuCash at 2.6 or earlier. It may still exist if you are using a 3.x version of Gnucash as the upgrade doesn't delete it but for the V3.x version the user config data is normally in a location .local/share/gnucash on V3.x of GnuCash on Linux systems. see https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Configuration_Locations for more info and other OSes. Your data if you are not using one of the database backends is a plain text file <filename>.gnucash where filename is the name you orignally gave it when you created it and it should be somewhere in your home directory. It will usually be accompanied by a series of log and backup files which have the same <filename>.gnucash format with additional extensions with a date-time stamp and either .log (logfile) or .gnucash (backup file) depending on the options you may have selected. You should see files in the following format <filename>.gnucash actual data file <filename>.gnucash.<timestamp>.log log file <filename>.gnucash.<timestamp>.gnucash backups of data file created at <timestamp> where <timestamp> has the format "yyyymmddhhmmss" in the directory which contained your data file. David Cousens ----- David Cousens -- Sent from: http://gnucash.1415818.n4.nabble.com/GnuCash-User-f1415819.html _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list [email protected] To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
