GnuCash crash recovery

[Dave Peticolas]

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On Sun, 2001-11-11 at 13:18, Anthony W. Juckel wrote:
> After a fair account re-arranging session, GnuCash crashed on me.  As I
> hadn't hit save during the process, I lost about an hours work...  I've
> noticed that GnuCash stores quite a few .xac and .log files in the
> directory it saves to, so I'm wondering if those could be used to
> recover the information that I lost.

Do you remember what action preceded the crash?


> I did a quick mailing list search, and I found that someone had written
> a quick and dirty recovery perl script for the 1.4.x series.  I've
> downloaded the script, but I can't seem to find the perl libraries it
> requires (I have gnucash installed via .deb), and I'm not sure that it
> would work on the 1.6.x series..I just don't know what changes there
> were to the engine.  So, I'm wondering what would be my best option for
> recovering this data?  Or am I better off just redoing the work (I
> didn't lose any transactions, I was just rearranging them)?

Probably better off redoing them, and hitting 'save' occasionaly.

dave


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