Recovered from a crash to find columns swapped and assets negative

[Rean Jacob]

It wasn’t few. Sorry if I didn’t convey correctly. All transactions credit
got swapped, dating back 4 years.

Yes, the earliest back up has it too. I realized I have a 2015 September
backup as zip. I’ll revert to that and report back.

On Mon, Feb 15, 2016 at 7:13 AM, John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us> wrote:

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> 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> wrote:
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>> 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?
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> 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.
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> 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?
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> Have you checked your earliest backup to make sure that it really does
> have the problem too?
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> Regards,
> John Ralls
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