Inadvertent data file loss

[Dustin Henning]

Apparently the fact that you opened a dated file first did matter.  I 
believe this is a known bug specific to the Mac version.  If I'm right, 
you must be using a Mac, and for your own future reference, you're 
definitely not insane for expecting different results when you 
double-click on different files.

Dustin

On 7/13/2016 3:51 PM, Hass, Michael wrote:
> 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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