Ver. 2.4.11 recovery

[Colin Law]

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On 9 July 2017 at 18:16, james <garftd at verizon.net> wrote:

>
> GOOD NEWS, stroke of luck. The old lappy must have a bad mobo battery.
> The date was set for 2006. So there were a few copyies made under the
> 2006 date. I was able to load one of those up and it had all the data
> complete history.
>
> I then reset the mobo & system OS clocks and loaded up an old version
> and made several copies of the <file>.gnucash file my main entires are
> for the checkbook and the credit card files (99%) so all the data from
> previous year is there.
>
> Thanks for your response. After I get the 2016 data entered and generate
> the reports, I can deliver for a belated 2016 tax filing (had
> extensions) for both the business and personal.
>
> Then, now that I have a newer lappy, I'll put linux on it and upgrade
> to the latest stable....

And no doubt you will start taking regular backups to an external
device, and occasionally keeping an off-site copy.

Colin