problem recovering data

[John C Reynolds]

Hugo,

For what its worth... my data file has no extension (no "dot" something; .xyz)

It should be where you found your .xac and .log files. And they (.xac & .log ) 
should start with what your file name is.

Hope that helps,

John R.

------Original Message-----
From: Hugo <hv at uninova.pt>
Sent: Wednesday 25 February 2004 01:53 pm
To: gnucash-user at lists.gnucash.org
Cc: 
Subject: Re: problem recovering data


>Many thanks Derek,
>
>You where completely right. Since I only created one set of accounts I
>only had to "save as" once and I had completely forgoten where I had
>saved it.
>
>But unfortunatelt I was unable to open the file I found the
>"Control.csh" file and a lot of .xac and .log files.
>
>When I try to open or import the "Control.csh" file it says:
>"Unknown file type"
>
>
>If it helps here is the head of the file "Control.csh"
>
><?xml version="1.0"?>
><gnc-v2>
><gnc:count-data cd:type="book">1</gnc:count-data>
><gnc:book version="(null)">
><book:id type="guid">3ebadbd733aa4e812a3b88ebaa71de94</book:id>
><gnc:count-data cd:type="account">137</gnc:count-data>
><gnc:count-data cd:type="transaction">294</gnc:count-data>
><gnc:account version="2.0.0">
>  <act:name>Assets</act:name>
>  <act:id type="guid">b69518fe16e8d2440f40b088cfb2d4ad</act:id>
>
>------
>
>Is there any king of incompatibility between the two versions? If there
>is is there any conversor?
>
>Hugo Vilardouro
>
>On Wed, 2004-02-25 at 18:38, Derek Atkins wrote:
>> Hugo <hv at uninova.pt> writes:
>> > Where is the data file located?
>>
>> It's located wherever you saved it.
>>
>> > I was hopping to find it under my home directory but in there I only
>> > found the following:
>> >
>> > ~/.gnucash/config-1.8.auto
>> > ~/.gnucash/books/%2Fhome%2Fhagv%2FInvestimento%2Fcash%2FControl.csh
>>
>> Well, you WILL want these files... But based on this I would
>> suggest looking at /home/gagv/Investimento/cash/ for a file named
>> Control.csh
>>
>> > None of this files seems to contais the my data.
>>
>> Correct.  These are ancillary files which you'll also want to copy.
>>
>> >   Currently I am running version 1.8.6
>> >
>> >   I am not really shure what was the version number I was running but by
>> > looking at the files above I would say 1.8
>>
>> Right, so you just need to move the data file, wherever you saved it.
>>
>> >> File->Export wouldn't help you..  If you didn't migrate your data file
>> >> off the old disk, your data is gone..  It's not like GnuCash could
>> >> magically pull it out of the ether.
>> >>
>> >> > Many thanks.
>> >>
>> >> -derek
>> >
>> > Hugo
>>
>> -derek
>
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