OH HELP!
Robert Graham Merkel
rgmerk@mira.net (Robert Graham Merkel)
Fri, 16 Feb 2001 07:55:15 +1100
canderson@spacebridge.com writes:
> I am running the latest stable version of gnucash (1.4.10) on Mandrake
> 7.2. This morning after entering a months worth of data I tried to save
> and got an error message saying that there was a problem saving the
> file. A few seconds later a dialog pops up asking me to save the file
> or renaming the file. I chose save and a prompt if I wanted to
> overwrite the existing file. Seeing that it is the same file I chose
> yes (unfortunately). I subsequently opened the file just to check if
> everything was ok., it was not. My 5 years of financial data went into
> the bit bucket. Gone, all of it. There are still log files and .xac
> files, is there a way to rebuild the database, or get back my data from
> these files? Please help -- that's a lot of data to loose. In case
> anyone is wondering about the 5 years, I was a quicken addict and gave
> up waiting for them to make a linux version of their software. I have
> now switched to gnucash and I a'int looking back.
>
The bad news - you may have lost the current session's data.
The good news - if you've still got the old .xac files around, you've
still got all your old data!
The <foo>.xac.<dateinfo>.xac files are complete .xac files which you
can open again quite happily. Make sure you make a backup copy before
you do so!
Linas Vepstas has also written a script to recover from log files,
which you'll find in the mail archives at gnucash.org somewhere - I
think it's made its way into CVS, but not into a release yet.
HTH.
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