Fwd: Last year's general ledger << offline, to avoid possible embarrasment >>

[rudolph maier]

Thanks,

The whole works for 2012 seems missing. I did a search for .gnucash and got
a daunting list of choices. I'll likely take the pc to my "fixer", Cherry
Computers, and he'll likely ifind it for me.

My external hard drive wasn't connected! Duh!

I couldn't find the answer in "Gnucash 2.4 small business accounting.

Actually, the 2012 accounts weren't bulky and I can probably reconstruct
the whole mess by hand in an afternoon, so I have a couple of outs.

I would certainly follow any suggestions you may have.

"You can make things foolproof, but not damn-fool proof."

Oh yes, and a favorite rhyme:

That money talks I can't deny.
I heard it once. It said, "Goodbye."

Best wishes,
Rudy

On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 9:24 AM, Mike or Penny Novack <
stepbystepfarm at mtdata.com> wrote:

> rudolph maier wrote:
>
> I am a new user. In July or August I began to put data in GnuCash for a
>> small medical practice. At the end of 2012, it disappeared and I can't
>> find
>> it. It's not in the Recycle Bin and I don't think I deleted it.
>> offers no way of retrieving this ledger and I will need it for taxes. It
>> must be somewhere in my Windows XP. How do I look for the missing data?
>>
>>
> Please be more precise about what is missing. I could interpret what you
> said in two very different ways.
>
> 1) ALL of my data is missing (the entire "books" is missing)
>
> 2) Before when I opened my set of books I had a view showing me a "general
> ledger" and now I don't. Or perhaps I had run a "General Ledger" report and
> now it's gone.
>
>
>
> Is it "1" or "2"? Don't answer me back privately, repeat your question
> again to the entire list making it clearer what you are asking. BTW, the
> person who posted that response about backups was slightly sarcastic BUT it
> is your responsibility to have some sort of backup procedures for your
> computer data. If not daily, then at least weekly or monthly. Though I
> think any business should consider daily with at least one copy stored off
> site.
>
> Michael
>