HELP!!! Lost data

[Brian Fallik]

THANKS.

I'm saved!

On Tue, 2005-01-25 at 19:24 -0500, Josh Sled wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-01-25 at 18:57, baf11 wrote:
> 
> > have a directory with the following files in my data directory:
> > $ find GnuCash
> > GnuCash
> > GnuCash/GnuCash_data.20041229094712.log
> > GnuCash/GnuCash_data.20040524203836.xac
> 
> These files are auto-generated by gnucash during use.  The .xac files
> are straight backups, and the .log files are a transaction-style log
> that can be replayed.
> 
> > You can see that one of the log files is marked 5/24/2004, which is VERY
> > suspicious to me.  
> 
> It's not /that/ suspicious; we make backups files on every use, and
> they're timestamped.
> 
> > Is there a way that some pointer to future logs could
> > have gotten borked during a power failure?  
> 
> No; we don't keep forward-looking data-file pointers.
> 
> > Is there a way to fix this
> > or reapply the logs, like a transactional database?
> 
> Assuming you don't remove old transactions or data like most users, the
> size of the datafile should be strictly increasing.  Therefore, the
> largest ".xac" datafile backup _should_ be the most recent.  I'd look to
> see if there's a big difference in the sizes of those .xac backup file
> over time; if there's a big drop, then the file before the drop is
> /probably/ the "last known good" state of the file.
> 
> The .log files can be replayed as per the menu item in the File menu.
> 
> ...jsled
>