Gnucash data missing
Derek Atkins
derek at ihtfp.com
Wed Apr 16 09:36:36 EDT 2014
Dan,
On Wed, April 16, 2014 9:23 am, dansaudio wrote:
> In the back ups, there is an anomaly in the file naming occurring
> simultaneously with the problem with the data. There appears to be a
> timestamp and file extension following the gnucash file extension. There
> are
> a few of these anololies then the file structure returns to normal, but
> with
> corrupted data. I believe this is the root of the problem, but do not
> understand yet how this happened. The (I believe to be incorrect) file
> name
> is structured as follows:
>
> <your accounts file name>.<datetimestamp>.gnucash,<datetimestamp>,gnucash
>
> For a log file, the structure is as follows:
>
> <your accounts file name>.<datetimestamp>.gnucash,<datetimestamp>,log
Consider this as:
<basename>.<timestamp1>.gnucash.<timestamp2>.gnucash (and .log)
This implies that on <timestamp2> you opened a BACKUP file from
<timestamp1> and started using it as your main data file. That explains
why you lost data, because you opened a file that likely existed before
that data was added.
Unfortunately there is not a good way to merge all your branches of data
entry back into a single data file, short of hoping you didn't add any
accounts and replaying the log filoes. If you DID add any accounts then
there's not a good way to merge them.
But at least you know what happened and why data is missing: you opened a
backup file.
Remember that gnucash will always open the last-used file by default. You
do not need to "click on" a data file.. Doing so is likely what caused
this issue for you.
Hope this helps,
> Dan
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-derek
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