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

[Colin Law]

On 4 February 2015 at 04:28, Dennis Shimer <dshimer at gmail.com> wrote:
> Nope everything is there except the original file and it doesn't have any of
> the date stamp in the name, just the original name with the tmp stuff after
> a second dot.

In that case you can use the latest backup from there and, if
necessary, the log that goes with it to pick up the changes.

>
> It is a folder we share via bittorrent sync and I haven't even asked if he
> noticed something going wrong, I just noticed it and was trying to track
> down thoughts before we get together.  The other user is less technical so I
> keep an eye on making sure things are backed up and working all right so I'm
> fairly certain he never does anything except open the file, enter
> transactions, and exit. It could be coming from the sync but I have never
> seen anything remotely like this so I first guessed it served some purpose
> in gnucash.

Make sure you don't try to edit it while it is being synced or while
the other person is editing it.

Colin

>
> On Tue, Feb 3, 2015 at 4:38 PM, Colin Law <clanlaw at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> 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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