On 11/12/2023 8:45 AM, Ken Farley wrote:
I'm using Gnucash on Mac OS, but I would think the file locations are
used for the same functions. The directory for "books" on my machine
is "~/Library/Application Support/Gnucash/books". Different location,
same purpose. This directory contains a bunch of files with names like
<File Name>.gnucash.gcm. These are not Gnucash files that you'd open
with File->Open.
The files you want to open have names of the format "<File
Name>.gnucash". You need to find those files, without the .gcm or any
other suffix.
To which I will add --- that is the default location and not necessary
the directory in which you chose to put the file. For example, I keep
more than one set of books under gnucash (only a couple now, but used to
be lots when treasurer of a number of non-profits) and each would be in
a directory dedicated to that organization.
So let's confirm that your problem really is "cannot open file" as
opposed to "cannot find the file to open". For SOME of the gnucash books
on the hard drive of this machine they have not been opened in many
years but I would have no problem finding them, correctly identifying
them, etc. The NAME of the file would tell me what org that was as well
as the name of the directory it was in.
Michael D Novack
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