<div>I guess I must have moved it and don't remember. The only file in there that's dated in 2005 is a log file that contains no actual records. Also, not that it helps, I found that my GnuCash version is 1.8.1.</div>
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<div>Thanks for the help, though.</div>
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<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 6/29/05, <b class="gmail_sendername">Derek Atkins</b> <<a href="mailto:warlord@mit.edu">warlord@mit.edu</a>> wrote:</span>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">I'm sorry to hear about your data loss. It sounds to me like you<br>didn't back up the current datafile. The .log files are just that,
<br>log files. They should be auto-deleted after 30 days. The .xac files<br>are backup files, and those, too, are auto-deleted after 30 days.<br><br>If you have files older than 30 days then you probably moved your<br>datafile somewhere else, and might have forgot to backup that place.
<br><br>-derek<br><br>Lytithwyn Eldohtar <<a href="mailto:lytithwyn@gmail.com">lytithwyn@gmail.com</a>> writes:<br><br>> I have been using gnucash for some time now. It came with RH9, which I<br>> recently reinstalled. I had copied the entire folder where I saved my
<br>> accounts, and put it back when I reinstalled. I opened the account file in<br>> gnucash, and I had lost much of the data. Everything was rolled back to<br>> sometime last year.<br>><br>> Any idea where the data went or how to get it back? There are a lot of .log
<br>> files in the folder, including one that has a 2005 date. Besides that, there<br>> is no indication of any data entered in 2005.<br>><br>> I don't have net access at home, and forgot to write down my version number.
<br>> As far as I can tell, though, RH9 uses version 1.8. I hope that is specific<br>> enough.<br>><br>> --<br>> chown lytithwyn:lytithwyn /* -R<br>> You got chownzed.<br>><br>> _______________________________________________
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</a><br><br>--<br> Derek Atkins, SB '93 MIT EE, SM '95 MIT Media Laboratory<br> Member, MIT Student Information Processing Board (SIPB)<br> URL: <a href="http://web.mit.edu/warlord/">http://web.mit.edu/warlord/
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