LOST MY ACCOUNT HOW TO RECOVER IT

[John Ralls]

On Mar 8, 2012, at 3:57 PM, Yawar Amin wrote:

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> 
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> Yawar
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> On 2012-03-08, at 12:19, Muhammad Babar Sayeed wrote:
> 
>> Dear Yawar,
>> 
>> I was using GNUCASH since last one month and it was working fine but suddenly when I opened it , it opens but did not show any of my enteries. What happenned is unknown to me.
>> 
>> 
>> Kindly let me know how to recover everything.
>> 
>> Awaiting reply.
>> 

Look in the directory where you keep your account file. You should find a bunch of files of the form "foo.gnucash.20120212140653.gnucash" (substitute the name your filename for "foo"). The numbers are a timestamp. The example is for 2012-Feb-12 at 14:06:53. Open the most recent of those files; if it looks OK, use File>Save As to save it with your original file name. If it doesn't look good, repeat with the next-most-recent and so on, until you find one that does look OK.

Regards,
John Ralls