Inadvertent data file loss

[Hass, Michael]

I did. But don't remember in what order. If I opened it after the backup
would I have damaged the base file?

On Wednesday, July 13, 2016, David T. <sunfish62 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Did you copy XXXX.gnucash, and did you try to open XXXX.gnucash?
>
> > On Jul 13, 2016, at 8:55 PM, Hass, Michael <mh at drivedp.com
> <javascript:;>> 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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