Inadvertent data file loss

Dustin Henning The00Dustin at gmx.com
Wed Jul 13 15:15:02 EDT 2016


Michael,

The files with timestamps in the filename are backups.  The XXXX.gnucash 
file should have been your latest and you should still be able to open 
it unless you saved over the top of it (intentionally, using save as 
functionality).

Dustin Henning

On 7/13/2016 2:55 PM, Hass, Michael wrote:
> I recently moved my entire GnuCash data folder to a new drive and
> opened what appears to be the wrong file. The most recent transactions
> in any file I open are almost a year old. I have what I believe to be
> all the .log files but I can't restore my day-old data file by
> copy-paste-rename instructions I've seen online. Have I permanently
> deleted everything?
>
> My confusion, I think, is that I have a file that is XXXX.gnucash and
> one called XXX.gnucash.YYYY.gnucash and I can't tell which is more
> recent (I opened the one that seemed to have the latest timestamp in
> the file name).
>
> I back up everything to the cloud each day so I think I can recover
> most of anything.
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