possible database coruption question

[Derek Atkins]

Well, if you were in the process of saving the file when the power
went out it's certainly possible the save was corrupted.  Go find
the most recent backup copy and restore from there.  GnuCash saves 30
days worth of backups.  So, if your file is named "accounts", your
backups will be named "accounts.YYYYMMDDHHMMSS.xac".  Just copy the most
recent backup file into a new data file, "accounts2" and try opening
that.

Note that you'll not have your most recent changes, but it should at
leave give you a working datafile.

-derek

Jim Hartzell <wa3uqd at nauticom.net> writes:

> I am new to gnucash 2 months, great program. I am using version 1.8.1 on
> RH9. I am not sure how to state the problem correctly, but here goes.
> I had a power failure while gnucash was running (no UPS). Now when I
> tried to run gnucash I get an error message that it cannot get a lock
> that another user may have it open, clicking " open anyway " I get 2
> corrupt windows, 1 has just a title bar the other is blank. clicking on
> the "X" doesn't close them, I had to kill the gnucash process. Clicking
> on create new file works, I created dummy accounts, they work fine. If I
> do a file open from the dummy accounts on the original accounts same
> problem.
> Help. How do I fix this problem?
> Jim
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