Inadvertent data file loss

[Hass, Michael]

I did not do a Save As of any file. But I can't remember if I opened the
simple base first or second. Would that matter?

On Wednesday, July 13, 2016, Dustin Henning <The00Dustin at gmx.com> wrote:

> Michael,
>
> The files with timestamps in the filename are backups.  The XXXX.gnucash
> file should have been your latest and you should still be able to open it
> unless you saved over the top of it (intentionally, using save as
> functionality).
>
> Dustin Henning
>
> On 7/13/2016 2:55 PM, Hass, Michael wrote:
>
>> I recently moved my entire GnuCash data folder to a new drive and
>> opened what appears to be the wrong file. The most recent transactions
>> in any file I open are almost a year old. I have what I believe to be
>> all the .log files but I can't restore my day-old data file by
>> copy-paste-rename instructions I've seen online. Have I permanently
>> deleted everything?
>>
>> My confusion, I think, is that I have a file that is XXXX.gnucash and
>> one called XXX.gnucash.YYYY.gnucash and I can't tell which is more
>> recent (I opened the one that seemed to have the latest timestamp in
>> the file name).
>>
>> I back up everything to the cloud each day so I think I can recover
>> most of anything.
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