recovered gnucash file

[David T.]

You are looking at log files. According to the basic guide:

Each time you open a file in GnuCash, a .log is created and saved with the same name format as the .xac backup files. As you make changes to the open data file, the log file saves only those changes. Log files are not a full backup of your data file - they simply record changes you have made to the data file in the current GnuCash session.

I would have to say that you'd need the base file or one of the xac files to begin with. The base data file is an xml file, so you'd look for xml tags. Since they are compressed by default, however, it will be difficult to decipher them in a sector reader.

Sorry to bring the bad news.

David

--- On Tue, 6/8/10, ritesh parmar <ritesh.parmar at hotmail.com> wrote:

> From: ritesh parmar <ritesh.parmar at hotmail.com>
> Subject: recovered gnucash file
> To: gnucash-user at gnucash.org
> Date: Tuesday, June 8, 2010, 7:31 PM
> 
> 
> hi. my HD recently crashed and using photorec i was able
> to
> recover alot of "text" files that have information about my
> gnucash
> entries. 
> Each section starts with 
> 
> ===== START 
> my entries xxxxx
> 
> ===== END
> 
> 
> does somebody know what I am looking at and whether or not
> i can recreate my gnucash entries using these entries ?
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