Lost or corrupt files

[Derek Atkins]

Hi Kathy,

Are you, by any chance, trying to open the .log files?  All the .xac files are
backups of your files.  You can try to copy the most recent backup file,
something like:

  cd /home/kathy/accounting
  cp myfile-20050516201023.xac myfile2

(this will CoPy the backup file to a new file named 'myfile2')

Then you can try to run gnucash and open it:

   gnucash &
   File -> Open
   /home/kathy/accounting/myfile2

Does this work?  If not, what (if anything) is printed on the console?

-derek

Quoting Kathy <kathyo at centurytel.net>:

>      Earlier today I shut down my machine without first closing GNU Cash. 
> After restarting latter I am unable to open any of my files in GNU Cash. I am
> 
> able to find the files in home/kathy/accounting but when I try to open them I
> 
> get a error message saying  "this file/url appears to be from a newer version
> 
> of gnu cash. You must upgrade your version of Gnu Cash to work with this 
> data"
> But I allready have the newest version of gnu cash installed. Does anyone
> here 
> know how I can open these files? If I cannot save these I will loose over 2 
> years worth of data!!
>    Help Please
>     Thanks  Kathy
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