vanishing .xac and .log files

[hendrik at topoi.pooq.com]

On Fri, Aug 17, 2007 at 07:15:16AM +1000, Elizabeth Dodd wrote:
> On Fri, 17 Aug 2007, hendrik at topoi.pooq.com wrote:
> > Could gnucash have been deleting them itself?  If so, I don't suppose
> > it saved them somewhere in compressed form so I can get them back,
> > but HOW THE HELL DO I STOP THIS FROM HAPPENING AGAIN?  AND WHY WASN"T
> > I WARNED?
> 
> and your backups?
> where did you store those?

In another place.  Unfortunately, there's a gap between the last backup 
(which was OK) and the first log (which isn't).  Still, the backup is a 
big help. 

Now I need a tool that will tell me all the differences between 
reconciled splits between those two .xac files.  Anyone know of one?
output from diff itself (after gunzipping, of course) contains too much 
irrelevant junk, and consists of uncontexted fragments of 
transactions.

xmldiff documentation says not to even bother trying it if there's more 
than about 100 nodes, and there certainly are.

-- hendrik