on 15th Dec, gnucash mysteriously rolled back to 08th Dec's backup

[Maf. King]

On Friday 17 December 2010 10:00:38 Zhang Weiwu wrote:

>     -rw-r--r-- 1 yuliansu users 87268 2010-12-10 10:37
>     rss.gnucash.20101210164240.xac
>     -rw-r--r-- 1 yuliansu users 84741 2010-11-29 15:21
>     rss.gnucash.20101215100749.xac
>     -rw-r--r-- 1 yuliansu users 85128 2010-12-15 10:07
>     rss.gnucash.20101215101958.xac

>
>     The result shows, that .xac file size keep increasing until
>     20101215100749 when it suddenly drop from 87268 bytes to 84741
>     bytes, and keep growing since then.
>
>     Look closer it shows 84741 is also the size of 20101208150756.xac.
>     Run a diff(1) between them, turns out the two files are identical.
>
>     So, what happened is, on 15th morning, gnucash managed to load
>     20101208150756.xac and used that as the main .gnucash file. Or, the
>     user did it.
>

Hi Zhang.

Note also the date stamp on that file where the file size drops.  I have no 
idea how or why, but it certainly looks like something odd happened!

I'll also note that the 8th and 15th december are exactly 1 week apart.

Maf.