Recovered from a crash to find columns swapped and assets negative

[John Ralls]

> On Feb 14, 2016, at 10:23 PM, Rean Jacob <reanjacob at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Sun, Feb 14, 2016 at 5:55 PM, John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us <mailto:jralls at ceridwen.us>> wrote:
> 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?
> Murphy at its best. No. I don’t have backups prior to that. 
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> Otherwise it would seem the best you can do is fix by hand the damaged transactions and move on.
> God! I can’t even imagine. Its four years of data and the banks don’t allow you to download as back as four…. GnuCash has been rock solid over the years that it never occurred to me. My heart is broken. On a Valentines day :-(
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Sorry, I understood that you had a few transactions with the debits and credits flipped and that you'd fixed them. Is it worse than that? 

Have you checked your earliest backup to make sure that it really does have the problem too?

Regards,
John Ralls