Disk died - backup unreadable

[Andrew Greig]

Hi Derek,

It may be, but is it normal for the .xac files to be have very long names and 
around 4 dates in them? The last of which is the latest save.  What viewer 
should I be using to try and see if the data is useable?  

here is the ls -l output on the last couple of files:

-r-xr-xr-x  1 root root 962856 Apr 17 21:56 
Andrew_Greig.20050805231538.xac.2005                                           
0831171718.xac.20051118160229.xac.20051129065021.xac.20051205075642.xac.20060420                                           
102619.xac*
-r--r--r--  1 root root   1408 Apr 28 14:29 
Andrew_Greig.20050805231538.xac.2005                                           
0831171718.xac.20051118160229.xac.20051129065021.xac.20051205075642.xac.20060428                                           
142944.log
-r-xr-xr-x  1 root root 968385 Apr 20 10:26 
Andrew_Greig.20050805231538.xac.2005                                           
0831171718.xac.20051118160229.xac.20051129065021.xac.20051205075642.xac.20060428                                           
142956.xac*
-r-xr-xr-x  1 root root 270127 Dec  5 07:57 gnucash_helpwithPetty_Cash.pdf*
-r-xr-xr-x  1 root root 252839 Dec  5 07:57 Gnucash_vendor_payments_tip.pdf*

Thanks
Andrew

On Thu, 4 May 2006 01:17 am, Derek Atkins wrote:
> Um, what do you get from:
>
>   ls -l
>
> This sounds like a backup problem, not a gnucash problem...
>
> -derek
>
> Quoting Andrew Greig <algreig at bigpond.net.au>:
> > Hi All,
> > I have had a disk die the day after I saved all my data files from
> > Gnucash to DVD.  Unfortunately the the files on the CD have appropriate
> > size, but on trying to copy them to my new hard drive I get the message
> > that the files cannot be read.  On trying to open a 940K data file from
> > the DVD I get the warning about radonly files, but after proceeding a
> > Gnucash message appears which states that the file is empty.  I tried
> > copying the whole iso to disk and then mounting it in loopback, which was
> > successful for most of my other stuff.  I tried opening the last data
> > file in vi but nothing showed up. Could not view it in mc.  Are there any
> > answers to this dilemma? --
> > Yours faithfully
> >
> > Andrew Greig
> > Melbourne, Australia
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-- 
Yours faithfully

Andrew Greig
0418 581 649