Inadvertent data file loss

[Colin Law]

On 13 July 2016 at 21:15, Dustin Henning <The00Dustin at gmx.com> wrote:
> Apparently the fact that you opened a dated file first did matter.

It was not the fact that a dated file was opened first, it was the
fact that the correct file was never opened at all (as double click
did not open it).

Colin

>  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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