Gnucash where's my data?
My computer crashed while upgrading Ubuntu. Long story short. I installed a new boot drive. My /home is still on the other drive. I installed GNUCASH on the new drive but I can't find my current data. I'm getting stuff that's 2 years old. I've gone to the GNuCASH site and looked every where on my other hard drive. I just used it two weeks ago. What's the secret. I think I had a version 2.4 something.
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It depends upon where you stored your primary data which can be either a set of files or a database. Assuming you used a file store somewhere on your home directory. this might help --
The closest thing in ~/.gnucash files I see is a GUID and that doesn't help much. (but maybe you put your filestore there, too?) so the easiest thing to do is to look for the filestore on your old drive. I assume you can still mount it so you can get to your old home directory? In a command prompt run Code:
find . -iname "*cash*" |
Well, my data lives in a file called accounts.xac — the only files that have .gnucash at the end are the log files.
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You seem to have lost all your hidden configuration cards (.gnucash, .thunderbird and probably .mozilla and many many others) when you left your home directory on the old drive. What is the path to your current home directory?
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and do you see .gnucash?
You need to use this command while you're in your home directory. Code:
ls -a |
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use command 'man find' and compare to 'man whereis' |
I spent 3 hours looking for those files. Today I found them.
Thanks for your help |
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