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

Colin Law clanlaw at googlemail.com
Tue Feb 5 10:24:10 EST 2013


On 5 February 2013 15:02, rudolph maier <r.maier92 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks,
>
> The whole works for 2012 seems missing. I did a search for .gnucash and got
> a daunting list of choices.

Tell us what you see, it is probably not as bad as you think.  It is
just a matter of sorting out the right one.  Paste the whole output
here if you like.

Colin


> 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
>>
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