subsequent year

[Colin Law]

On 25 January 2015 at 13:53, Del Kentner <dlmrgnk at gmail.com> wrote:
> OK, it will take me a bit as they need to be retrieved from the Recycle Bin.
> Farm.Gnucash.20150123112318
> It so happened that the text file I restored doesn't have the same number as
> the "pairs" did but the name was the same, the difference is one was
> preceded by the Gnucash symbol and the other by the Libre Office symbol.
> Here is a copy and paste of the text in the file I restored with the same
> name as above (with a different number):
> mod trans_guid split_guid time_now date_entered date_posted acc_guid
> acc_name num description notes memo action reconciled amount value
> date_reconciled

Firstly, unless you specifically saved your gnucash file with the name
Farm.Gnucash.20150123112318, then that is not your original accounts
file.  Each time you save the file it makes a backup file by appending
the date/time to your filename.  So your actual file was presumably
Farm.Gnucash and the above file is the backup that gnucash saved at
11:23::18 on 23rd Jan.  Note that the full name will actually be
Farm.Gnucash.20150123112318.gnucash.  Presumably you have your
operating system set to not show file extensions.

Secondly gnucash also creates log files containing details of the
changes you made during the session. The log files names are created
by appending the datetime to your filename, with the extension .log
rather than .gnucash.  So that file would be
Farm.Gnucash.20150123112318.log and is presumably the file that your
OS thinks is an Office file.

I am sure this is all explained in the gnucash docs somewhere, though
I am not up to date with where those are.

Colin