Merging data.

[James Russell Kuyper Jr.]

On 02/14/2017 06:14 AM, David Carlson wrote:
> James,
> 
> You might try making a copy of a backup shortly before the accident in a
> test directory along with all the subsequent logs from both locations
> and then try replayng the logs. There is no guarantee this will work
> perfectly, however.
> 
> Looking at those logs with a text editor could remind you of which
> transactions are missing from one or the other of the current files.

Thank you for that suggestion. I looked for the most recent back-up
where the hard drive and the thumb drive back-ups were identical, then
opened the most recent gnucash file on the thumb drive, and "replayed"
all of the log files on my hard drive that were more recent than the
common back-up. Then I saved the result in both locations. It seems to
have worked perfectly. I've seen those log files for years, and have
seen the "replay" option on the menu, and never realized what they were
there for.

> On Mon, Feb 13, 2017 at 10:33 PM, James Russell Kuyper Jr.
> <jameskuyper at verizon.net <mailto:jameskuyper at verizon.net>> wrote:
> 
>     I've been sharing my Gnucash file with my wife via a USB thumb drive,
>     with each of us making changes to the file on our own computer using the
>     thumb drive, and with me periodically saving a copy to my hard disk.
>     Well, it was bound to happen, sooner or later: I accidentally made
>     changes to my hard disk copy at a time when it had not been updated to
>     include the changes my wife had recently made to the flash drive copy.
>     Is there any simple way to merge the two copies, so as to combine my own
>     changes with my wife's changes, without duplicating the records that
>     neither of us changed?