lost data

[Lytithwyn Eldohtar]

I guess I must have moved it and don't remember. The only file in there 
that's dated in 2005 is a log file that contains no actual records. Also, 
not that it helps, I found that my GnuCash version is 1.8.1.
 Thanks for the help, though.

 On 6/29/05, Derek Atkins <warlord at mit.edu> wrote: 
> 
> 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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> 
> --
> Derek Atkins, SB '93 MIT EE, SM '95 MIT Media Laboratory
> Member, MIT Student Information Processing Board (SIPB)
> URL: http://web.mit.edu/warlord/ PP-ASEL-IA N1NWH
> warlord at MIT.EDU PGP key available
> 



-- 
chown lytithwyn:lytithwyn /* -R
You got chownzed.
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