Harddisk full, Datafile corruption
Maf. King
maf at chilwell.net
Fri Dec 3 08:43:19 EST 2004
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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