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

Derek Atkins warlord at MIT.EDU
Wed Feb 4 09:52:52 EST 2015


Hi,

Dennis Shimer <dshimer at gmail.com> writes:

> 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?

You say this is on Win7; is this on a file share server, by chance?

This file is a temporary file that GnuCash uses during the save process.
It creates a new file, writes the data into it, then moves the old file
to a backup and renames the temporary file to the filename.  If GnuCash
gets interrupted during the process it could, theoretically, leave the
temp file hanging around.

> Many thanks.
> Dennis

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-derek

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