data lost between sessions

[hermit]

Is your bios and system date the same?  I don't know where the program 
gets the date from, but I would check that.

Ken

Lenore Horner wrote:
> On Jan 19, 2009, at 9:50 PM, Lenore Horner wrote:
>
>   
>> Twice in the last two months I have opened Gnucash to find  
>> significant numbers of transactions missing from the registers.   
>> Last month it was an entire block of time missing.  I was able to go  
>> back (very far back!) to an uncorrupted .xac file and then run all  
>> the subsequent .log files.  This was tedious, but did seem to have  
>> restored all my data.  That was on 2.2.6.  Thinking that perhaps  
>> there was a bug that had been fixed, I upgraded to 2.2.7 (the latest  
>> version in MacPorts in Dec. 2008).  Imagine my disgust when I opened  
>> Gnucash this morning to find that all of the charges in both my  
>> credit card accounts are missing.  My other accounts appear to be  
>> ok.  The credit charges are also missing in the relevant expense  
>> accounts.
>>
>> I have not crashed the computer or shut it down without closing  
>> Gnucash and X11.
>>
>> I have checked in Gnucash and the Filter is set to show all  
>> transactions.
>>
>> The only thing that would even have read the file between this  
>> morning when it is corrupted and day before last when I entered a  
>> transaction (which does exist) would be the TimeMachine backing  
>> things up to an external drive.
>>
>> Here are the last few lines of .xac and .log files.  Note that the  
>> file I saved on the 17th is significantly larger than the file  
>> opened this morning on the 19th.  I have done nothing myself beyond  
>> opening the file, so the deletions are all Gnucash inventions.
>> <pastedGraphic.png>
>>
>>
>> Obviously, I will try re-opening the last .xac file that is 40kB.   
>> However,  repeated data-loss is absolutely unacceptable in a piece  
>> of accounting software.  Does anyone have any clue why this is  
>> occurring?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Lenore
>>     
>
> I have just opened the last 40kB file and done a save-as to a new file  
> name.  The new file (and I did nothing but open it and save) is 20kB.   
> No charges are present in my credit card accounts.
>
> It appears to me that the file is being corrupted by being opened.
>
> I noticed that the date my system attaches to the last 40kB file is  
> wrong.  Could this be causing problems?  If so, how do I fix it.
>
> At this juncture, it appears to me that opening any further files is  
> futile because they will promptly become corrupted.
>
> One person has suggested this may be a hard drive failure.  I ran two  
> different disk scan utilities and both reported no problems with the  
> disk.  Furthermore, other files aren't being corrupted.
>
> Lenore
>
>
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