Total Crash and Lost Data

[Derek Atkins]

Randy,

"Randy Aldering" <alderingr at housesmithe.com> writes:

> Good grief, my apologies.  One could resent the suggestion that the users of GnuCash and other
> OpenSource projects do not support them financially.  For my type of personality, all of that
> reading is a bit much.  GnuCash has not been generating .xac files for two years, and it still
> isn't under the latest release, so that is not some thing that I have a lot of control over,as far
> as I can tell..  By the by, I DID search for data loss, and got nothing.  I'm also not the type to
> write a dissertation detailing "what happened" BEFORE I actually make contact with some one.  If
> that is some how "wrong," then that is truly unfortunate.  Thanks for all the help, any way.  I
> appreciate the thoughtful use of donation money.

One thing you failed to mention in your email is that your "data loss"
is due to you running an early Alpha version, 2.3.4, and using the
SQLite storage mechanism.  This is also why there are no automated
backup files; the SQL backend doesn't create them (because, well,
you can't just 'save' the data like the XML backend).

Still, I thought we recovered your data when I was helping you on IRC
yesterday?  At least you left IRC happy.  If you were still having
problems you could have come back?

-derek

PS: For the record, the Alpha releases vociferously exclaim that you
could lose data by using them.

> Randy Aldering  RHI,CHI
> alderingr at housesmithe.com
> 269-350-4411
>
> Veritas vos Liberabit
>
> On Mon, January 17, 2011 14:30, Donald Allen wrote:
> | On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 2:20 PM, David T. <sunfish62 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> |> Randy--
> |>
> |> Presumably, you have lost your Gnucash data because of a crash. Also presumably, you might want
> |> assistance recovering from this crash. However, there's not a lot to go on in your message. What
> |> operating system are you on? What version of Gnucash? What were you doing when Gnucash crashed?
> |> Did you have backups?
> |>
> |> No one can help you if you don't provide some details.
> |
> | Not to mention that
> |
> | 1. The indignation in his message is more than a bit over-the-top,
> | given that he spent $0 for the hard work of volunteers.
> | 2. You can search the FAQ for "data loss" and it tells you about .xac
> | and .log files and why they are there. Is that DIFFICULT?
> | 3. His message is addressed to the wrong mailing list.
> |
> | (Given the nature of my message, I want to emphasize that I am not
> | Gnucash developer nor am I associated with the project in any way,
> | other than as a happy user. I am speaking for myself here, not for the
> | project.)
> |
> | /Don
> |
> |>
> |> David
> |>
> |> --- On Mon, 1/17/11, Randy Aldering <alderingr at housesmithe.com> wrote:
> |>
> |>> From: Randy Aldering <alderingr at housesmithe.com>
> |>> Subject: Total Crash and Lost Data
> |>> To: gnucash-devel at lists.gnucash.org
> |>> Date: Monday, January 17, 2011, 8:02 AM
> |>> You need to put something in the
> |>> documentation that is EASY to find regarding a total loss of
> |>> data and crash of GnuCash.  This stinks.
>

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