Christian Gatzemeier <c.gatzemeier at tu-bs.de> writes:
>
> Hello,
> I have to report that with gnucash 1.8.0 I have the situation that it doesn't
> remember changes, even though the file has been saved before closing.
Well, 1.8.0 had a LOT of bugs in it -- 1.8.1 was released like a week
later (maybe two), and 1.8.2 is current!
> I noticed that somehow the backup mechanism seems to be mixed up.
I don't think it's all that mixed up...
> Attatched is the output of a ls -l in the data directory.
> It looks like it happened on the 4th, when gnucash crashed and the
> also attatched backtrace was generated. Unfortunately I can not give any more
> details on what was done to run into the crash. (other person, happened by
> itself, ...oh, sure ;-)
Well, it looks like you started to open up the backup file itself, and
started working out of the backup file. You can see that from:
-rw-r--r-- 9 hh users 2147392 2003-04-11 22:10 HansH.20030404232105.xac
-rw-r--r-- 1 hh users 135 2003-04-08 23:59 HansH.20030404232105.xac.20030408235900.log
-rw-r--r-- 1 hh users 80820 2003-04-12 01:07 HansH.20030404232105.xac.20030411184346.log
-rw-r--r-- 1 hh users 2116012 2003-04-04 22:54 HansH.20030404232105.xac.20030411214308.xac
Basically, on April 8 you opened that backup file instead of the actual
data file -- I don't know why that happened, but it did. GnuCash has been
using the "backup" file as its data file ever since. Your most recent
change appears to have been at 22:10 yesterday.
I suggest you just rename (or copy) HansH.20030404232105.xac to
whatever you want your datafile to be called.
> What might be the best thing to do now to staighten this out?
> I allready tried to save the remainig data into another file (save as) but all
> that happens in the directory is that the .LNK and .LCK files get renamed
> without the extra <date.xac> tag. But there is no new data File of 2MB.
Uhh, SaveAs should work fine, provided you start with the proper data
file.
-derek
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