restoring backup

[Derek Atkins]

Arthur Dyck <arthur at avefoodcoop.ca> writes:

> I had a hard drive failure and am now trying to reload my gnucash files.  I am 
> using 2.0.1 on kubuntu edgy.
>
> When I go to my saved files. I have a series of .log and .xac files which look 
> like this:  2007accounts.20070317100305.log and 
> 2007accounts.20070317100305.xac.  When I try to open the .xac file I get the 
> following error message: The file type of 
> file /home/arthur/Documents/gnucash/2007/2007 accounts.20070317100302.xac is 
> unknown.  It also appears that all of my .log and .xac files are empty.

How are you "try[ing] to open the .xac file[s]"?
What happens if you run gnucash and File -> Open 
/home/arthur/Documents/gnucash/2007/2007accounts 

-derek

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