gnucash 1.4.9 crash recovery

[linas@linas.org]

It's been rumoured that Roland Roberts said:
> 
> After working for several hours off and on (while chasing screaming
> kids, and other fun stuff), I was withing about two transactions of
> finishing my work when *boom* gnucash died.  I'm a very sad and tired
> puppy right now.

Unfortunately, 'save early, save often' still applies.

> I have a 990+ kbyte log file.  Is there any way to replay that log to
> get my transactions reloaded up to the point gnucash crashed?  

In principle, yes, that's why the log file was created in the first
place. In practice, no one has ever written the tool to do this.  
You wouldn't happen to have the urge to code ....  ?

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(I think Bill will want to lynch me, but...) maybe we should 
change the log file format to QIF?  Its an idea ...


--linas