Bob Your file will have the format "<filename>.gnucash".
It will also likely have a group of backup and log files in the same directory with formats <filename>.gnucash.<timestamp>.gnucash and <filename>.gnucash.<timestamp>.log depending on your preference settings. Do you know what Gnucash version you were running previously (and on what operating system you were running. If you can locate the files on your computer using the file manager, start GnuCash and then use the File_>Open dialog from the menu to navigate to the location you found the files in and select the file of format "<filename>.gnucash". It is a good practice to keep the files for a single set of books in a folder named for the entity the books are for. David Cousens On Sun, 2024-04-21 at 16:23 -0400, Kenneth Maze via gnucash-user wrote: > I hadn’t used gnucash for several months due to illness. I tried to > open and access my data but got a message the file 'could not be > found. The file is in the history list, do you want to remove it?’ > > I selected ‘no’ and the app quit. I downloaded the latest version of > the app and tried again with the same result. > > I don’t want to accidentally erase years of data. Do I respond ‘yes’ > to the message? > > thanks > > bob > _______________________________________________ > gnucash-user mailing list > gnucash-user@gnucash.org > To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: > https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user > ----- > Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. > You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All. _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
