Please Help!

[David Carlson]

On 11/8/2011 7:35 PM, Nicolae Crisan wrote:
> I am not sure how many revisions or versions have come out and how
> often they have of GnuCash, but if you have an "older" version I would
> suggest you transfer your working file (backup first of course) and
> stay with that new version.
>
> I am a firm believer that changing over to new versions of software
> just to be updated is UTTER CRAP. But, in the case of this
> application, possibly it might help. I'm not sure why you have a .gmc
> file, I thought the extension was .gnucash. As I type, I think you may
> have just abbreviated. In any event, please keep us updated as to how
> your recovery process is going. I REALLY do not want to run into data
> loss issues like that and I'm sure you don't want to ever again as
> well.
>
> I will end with a quick "story" of a few weeks ago when I had a bit of
> scare of my own. It did not involve GnuCash, but it reinforced in me
> the importance of BACKUPS.
>
> It was mid-terms and I had completed 3 out of 4 chapters of Accounting
> homework ("Asset:Time = Gone"). I did it all in a text editor (cause
> I"m gangster like that) and I was switching back and forth between
> files. Un-benounced (spelling?) to me, I had accidentally completed a
> problem in a chapter and had accidentally overwritten a COMPLETE
> chapter of work with the same file name. Need I say more? To my
> credit, I had PRINTED out most of that chapter and had only a few
> problems to rework. I need not explain the anguish and frustration I
> felt. So, gents the moral of the story? You know.
>
> One of the things I hate most is when I have something happen that
> causes data loss and everyone keeps saying "should have ..." I didn't
> tell that story for that purpose. I will loose data again in the
> future, TRUST ME.
>
> On Tue, Nov 8, 2011 at 4:27 AM, Colin Law<clanlaw at googlemail.com>  wrote:
>> On 8 November 2011 09:16, Daniel Hollis<danh4648 at gmail.com>  wrote:
>>> I searched for the file and all i could find was the .gcm file under gnucash/books.  The main file was usually in mydocuments/gnucash.  The whole mydocuments/gnucash folder is gone.  I really hope that somehow I deleted it myself and the program did not have a bug because I am worried this could happen again..  Luckily i had another folder with some old files and I only lost a couple weeks of entries..  So not as bad as I originally thought but I have lost some confidence in the program.  It is not the first time I have had a scare with gnucash.  One time I did something wrong with the dates on a transaction and I had to manually edit the data file due to a known bug..
>>
>> I don't think there is any way gnucash could delete the whole folder,
>> it would be virtually impossible for it to do that I think.  I think
>> whenever anything like that has happened to me it has been due to
>> operator error on my part, accidentally doing something silly.  Did
>> you check in the trash folder?
>>
>> This does bring up once again the importance of backups.  Everyone
>> should remember that at any moment your hard disk could go up in smoke
>> (literally or metaphorically) so we should remember to backup anything
>> that we have invested time an effort in onto separate media, and
>> preferably for important stuff keep an offsite copy.  Send a CD with
>> all the photos, gnucash stuff and so on to Granny occasionally for her
>> to keep safely in case the house burns down.
>>
>> Colin L
>>
>
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As I am a new user of Linux I noticed that you used / instead of \ in 
your file listing.  That suggests that you may be using Linux, which 
requires mounting of all external devices before their respective 
directories can be found and read.  Thus the previous suggestion about 
USB drives applies also to network resources and other removable drives 
or media such as optical drives.
Did the parent directory for mydocuments/gnucash ever change?


Any place other than your home drive can at times be either invisible or 
in a different location than before.