Recovered from a crash to find columns swapped and assets negative

[John Ralls]

> On Feb 14, 2016, at 4:07 PM, Rean Jacob <reanjacob at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Sun, Feb 14, 2016 at 3:25 PM, John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us <mailto:jralls at ceridwen.us>> wrote:
> Was the QIF import related to these two transactions?
> This qif file was related to the accounts, but not to the transactions. 
> 
That's interesting.

> If you're using the XML backend there should be some time-stamped backup files in the same directory as your account file. You can open the last one of those previous to the crash to eliminate any corruption caused by the crash.
> 
> Forgive me for sounding stupid.
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> Should I revert to one of the files that end with .gnucash or the .log files?
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> The sad part of all this is, the crash happened back in December last week and I think the backups are only kept for 30 days by default. When I checked the folder, all the timestamps are in February.
> 
> Is there something I could do here? 
> 

The .gnucash files.

If it's been more than 30 days since the crash and you left the default aging then they're gone unless you have some on your backup disk. You *are* making backups to another (ideally off-site) disk, right?

Otherwise it would seem the best you can do is fix by hand the damaged transactions and move on.

Regards,
John Ralls