help! file corruption, file type is unknown

[John Ralls]

On Jan 8, 2013, at 1:05 PM, scar <scar at drigon.com> wrote:

> Derek Atkins @ 01/08/2013 01:20 PM:
>> First, I am very sorry for your data loss.  It can be very frustrating.
> 
> yes, for sure. at a minimum i have a nightly backup somewhere, at least....
> 
> 
>> Now, depending on the file type you used, recovery could be as simple as
>> copying from your most recent backup.  If you're using the XML backend
>> (which should be the default) then you should have a bunch of files named
>> RV Storage.201YMMDDHHMMSS.xac (where you can fill in the date for the most
>> recent one).  Just copy the most recent one over the original RV Storage
>> and you should be back to where you were prior to your last 'save'.
> 
> thanks, wonderful, i have files like that but they are .gnucash files
> not .xac.  however i tried copying the most recent one and things seem
> to be working ok...
> 

You're good, then.

Derek just forgot that we changed the file extension from .xac to .gnucash in 2.4.

Regards,
John Ralls