importing

[Maf. King]

On Tuesday, 10 October 2017 14:30:41 BST Frankie Raney wrote:
> Did a search, that's how I know it went to lala land.  Can't remember ever
> having this happen before.
> 

Hi Frankie,

Don't know much about importing, 'cos I've never done it, but trashing the 
data file is a worry!

AFAIK,when GC does a save (or autosave) it doesn't delete the data file - it 
renames the old one to [name].timestamp.gnucash, and then creates a new 
[name].gnucash  -  which I know doesn't help much...

are you on Windows?  Try looking for hidden files?  What was the full path to 
the folder the file disappeared from ?  Were you using the XML or SQLite file 
backend (or a full-on database)? 

- fully appreciate that as a new user, you may not know the answers to these, 
especially the last question!

HTH,
Maf.