Inadvertent data file loss

[Hass, Michael]

This absolutely solved it. File-Open instead of double-click. Thank
you very much for all the replies.

On Wed, Jul 13, 2016 at 3:46 PM, Colin Law <clanlaw at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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