What are files named something like Filename.gnucash.tmp-a00396

[Colin Law]

On 3 February 2015 at 21:28, Dennis Shimer <dshimer at gmail.com> wrote:
> I understand the backups and the log files but recently I had friend with a
> gnucash file just disappear. One day it's there, the next it isn't I'm not
> done helping him trace down what actually happened but there was a file
> with the extension .tmp-a00396. I know he is using a fairly recent version
> on Windows 7 and the file looks like something ver near the last saved
> version of the .gnucash file.
>
> What is this file, where does it come from, and how likely that it is in
> fact a complete copy of what he was last working on?

I don't know the answer to that, but have all the automatic backup and
log files also gone (the YYYYMMDDHHMMSS.gnucash and .log files).  If
so then either a complete folder has been deleted or you are looking
in the wrong place.

Colin

>
> Many thanks.
> Dennis
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