lost data

[Derek Atkins]

I'm sorry to hear about your data loss.  It sounds to me like you
didn't back up the current datafile.  The .log files are just that,
log files.  They should be auto-deleted after 30 days.  The .xac files
are backup files, and those, too, are auto-deleted after 30 days.

If you have files older than 30 days then you probably moved your
datafile somewhere else, and might have forgot to backup that place.

-derek

Lytithwyn Eldohtar <lytithwyn at gmail.com> writes:

> I have been using gnucash for some time now.  It came with RH9, which I
> recently reinstalled.  I had copied the entire folder where I saved my
> accounts, and put it back when I reinstalled.  I opened the account file in
> gnucash, and I had lost much of the data.  Everything was rolled back to
> sometime last year.
>
> Any idea where the data went or how to get it back?  There are a lot of .log
> files in the folder, including one that has a 2005 date.  Besides that, there
> is no indication of any data entered in 2005.
>
> I don't have net access at home, and forgot to write down my version number. 
> As far as I can tell, though, RH9 uses version 1.8.  I hope that is specific
> enough.
>
> --
> chown lytithwyn:lytithwyn /* -R
> You got chownzed.
>
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