restoring backup

[Arthur Dyck]

I'm using File-> Open *.xac.  No luck.

Arthur

On Wednesday 21 March 2007 03:00, Derek Atkins wrote:
> 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