help! file corruption, file type is unknown

Fred Bone Fred.Bone at dial.pipex.com
Wed Jan 9 09:30:32 EST 2013


On 8 January 2013 at 14:05, scar said:

> 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...

Make sure you "save as" to a filename without the yyyymmddhhmmss, 
otherwise in a year or so you'll be asking why the filenames are so long.



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