Inadvertent data file loss

Colin Law clanlaw at gmail.com
Wed Jul 13 15:46:57 EDT 2016


On 13 July 2016 at 20:38, Hass, Michael <mh at drivedp.com> wrote:
> 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?

No it would not matter.   What happens when you try to open
XXXX.gnucash using File > Open (not double click)?

Colin

>
> 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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