Harddisk full, Datafile corruption

[Maf. King]

On Friday 03 Dec 2004 10:37, Marc Gorzala wrote:
> What about the gnucash backup, <filename>.<date>.xac?
>
> -derek
>
> OK, thank your for that reaction, but i don't know what i could do with
> these backup files. there are pretty much files named as you described.
> i take a look on the gnucash homepage, to read how to use my backupfiles
> but i don't find anything. i attached an output auf "ls" in my data
> directory to this mail.
> the file what is corrupt ist called privat . (perhaps others too)
> when you have a quick answer it would be nice, to give it to me.
> cu
> Marc
>

HI Marc,

Just open the backup file in gnucash directly.  

Look for the most recent one which is not corrupted - the filename are made up 
like this:

privat.yearmonthdaytime.xac

you will be able to open these directly.

Maf.


> Marc Gorzala <gorzala at web.de> writes:
>  > Hi,
>  > just a few hours ago, i entered a transaction in my gnucash saved it
>  > and though everything is okay.
>  > but when i launched gnucash again afterwards it said that it had
>  > problems reading the datafile.
>  > after a little bit investigation i found out that the hard disk was
>  > full. i deleted something, hoping that the problem would be fixed that
>  > way. but it wasn't!
>  > my main datafile is called privat and when i take a look in it, it
>  > ended that way:
>  >
>  > -------
>  > <gnc:transaction version="2.0.0">
>  >    <trn:id type="guid">92712cb5206676883f2aba0ad9c5b24f</trn:id>
>  >    <trn:currency>
>  >      <cmdty:space>ISO4217</cmdty:space>
>  >      <cmdty:id>EUR</cmdty:id>
>  >    </trn:currency>
>  >    <trn:num>384</trn:num>
>  >    <trn:date-posted>
>  >      <ts:date>2004-11-11 00:00:00 +0100</ts:date>
>  >    </
>  > -------
>  >
>  > seems that gnucash wrote until the disk was full and than ended :-(
>  >
>  > does anyone know who i get at least something of my data?
>  > my last backup is from 6.Oct 2004
>  > not too new.
>  >
>  > Yours Marc
>
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