vanishing .xac and .log files

[Chris Shoemaker]

On Thu, Aug 16, 2007 at 08:37:12PM -0400, hendrik at topoi.pooq.com wrote:
> 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?

You might try creating a running the same saved report on both files,
exporting them to html and then comparing those.

-chris