HELP!!! Lost data

[Derek Atkins]

Hi,

Did you check your backup files?
Did you check under File -> Open Recent (perhaps you opened an older file)?

Gnucash wont delete data like this, so most likely you've either got a
file system problem or you're pointing gnucash at an old data file.

-derek

baf11 <baf11 at cornell.edu> writes:

> Help!
>
> I had been using GnuCash for over a year and been very happy.  However,
> when I loaded the application today I noticed that all transactions
> between 5/24/2004 and today have been erased from my data.  I haven't
> recently changed anything in GnuCash, haven't upgraded the software,
> nothing.  
>
> The only things I can think of that might be related are that I made a
> copy of the GnuCash data for archival purposes, but that should have
> been read only.  Also I've had some recent power outages, but GnuCash
> probably wasn't loaded in memory.
>
> This is GnuCash 1.8.9 on Gentoo.
>
> Is all that data lost?  There's no way I could type it all in again,
> much less find it.  How in the world could so much data disappear???
>
> Thanks for any help.  Please CC me as I'm not subscribed.
>
> brian
>
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