Inadvertent data file loss

[Colin Law]

On 13 July 2016 at 21:18, Hass, Michael <mh at drivedp.com> wrote:
> I am using Mac. Reassurance much appreciated. If I can log/reinforce the
> bug somewhere just point me. You can tell I'm new at this.

I believe the problem is that on a Mac double clicking files to start
gnucash opens the last opened file not the one you double click.  If I
remember correctly there is no easy fix for this.  Perhaps it would be
better if double clicking gnucash files did nothing rather than just
starting gnucash with the last file.  I don't know whether this would
be easily implemented or not.

Colin

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