Thanks John and gang. I went into Gnucash > File > Open. I had a list
of files from when I first installed the program last year. I went down
to the end of the list and clicked on the data file and bingo, we're
back in business. Easy and painless. I then closed Gnucash and
reopened it and
To retrigger the settings migration (and hence recover all your settings) you
could also try to reset a key in the Windows registry.
The path is
Computer\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\GSettings\org\gnucash\GnuCash\general
And the key is prefs-version
Set this key to any number less than 4007 (0 is
Your book is probably right where you left it. GnuCash 4.7 changes the
preferences--see the top of the release notes for details--and it sounds like
the migration failed in your case. The last file and file history are kept in
preferences so that's very likely why it didn't open your file
Hi all,
I upgraded my gnucash to ver. 4.7 The uninstall of ver 4.5 went smoothly as
did the installation. . . until the end. My computer froze and I had to do a
cold reboot. So I reinstalled ver 4.7 and opened gnucash, it thought that I
was a new user.
So where is the data file and what
