Inadvertent data file loss

Wed Jul 13 16:44:59 EDT 2016

I'm not incredibly familiar with Macs, but they do run a proprietary 
flavor of *nix, and I suspect that other applications don't behave this 
way (that is to say that when one double-clicks a .jpg file, I suspect 
they see the appropriate image in whatever application they have 
associated with .jpg files as opposed to the last image they had 
opened).  That having been said, while such a change might prevent some 
confusion (and also be as simple as not having .gnucash file associated 
with an application), I find it difficult to believe there is an 
unaddressable issue that causes this behavior.  Unfortunately, I only 
know about the bug from reading this list, so I can't point toward a bug 
report or any sort of additional diagnostic information.  It wouldn't be 
surprising to me if the issue was in an underlying component that the 
GnuCash developers build on top of and don't directly influence (for 
instance, Gtk has problems with the US-International keyboard layout 
when used in Windows, so all apps built on Gtk reflect that problem), 
but it should certainly be addressable if the right persons wanted to 
address it.

Dustin

On 7/13/2016 4:34 PM, Colin Law wrote:
> 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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>>>>>>>
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