2.6.19 crash: one account recovered, one not yet recovered [RESOLVED]

[Rich Shepard]

On Tue, 3 Apr 2018, John Ralls wrote:

> Does business.gnucash use the SQLite3 backend? If so, that would explain
> the absence of backups, and I suggest you set up some OS-level backup
> mechanism for it.

John,

   I use the default backend; 'file' shows it as a compressed Unix file;
perhaps gzipped xml?

   Every midnight cron runs dirvish for incremental backups.

   What's interesting is since I loaded the business.gnucash file yesterday
and everything displayed as it should, the list of files in the business
subdirectory includes business.gnucash (which opens the current state of
that account) as well as several .gnucash and .log files from yesterday's
activities. For example, business.gnucash.20180403104944.gnucash and
business.gnucash.20180403104944.log. So, the business account works as
expected.

   On the other hand, the personal account can be loaded by specifying only a
'personal.gnucash.*.gnucash' file. When I open personal.gnucash I get an
empty display with no CoA or anything else. Specifically, the recently
opened file list shows 'personal.gnucash.20180403092939.gnucash'.

   I suspect that I can rename one of the datetime stamped files to
personal.gnucash, and clean up that subdirectory. I would appreciate your
thoughts on this.

   Having just opened gnucash, and shut it down, these are the files in the
personal/ subdirectory:

gnucash-coa.gnucash
personal.gnucash
personal.gnucash.20180402112722.log
personal.gnucash.20180402112803.log
personal.gnucash.20180402112813.gnucash
personal.gnucash.20180402112813.log
personal.gnucash.20180403092537.log
personal.gnucash.20180403092537.log.gnucash
personal.gnucash.20180403092537.log.gnucash.20180403092911.log
personal.gnucash.20180403092840.gnucash
personal.gnucash.20180403092840.log
personal.gnucash.20180403092939.gnucash
personal.gnucash.20180403092939.gnucash.20180403095225.log
personal.gnucash.20180403092939.gnucash.20180403104401.log
personal.gnucash.20180403092939.gnucash.20180403125139.log
personal.gnucash.20180403092939.gnucash.20180403125159.gnucash
personal.gnucash.20180403092939.gnucash.20180403125159.log
personal.gnucash.20180403092939.gnucash.20180404053639.log
personal.gnucash.20180403092939.gnucash.20180404053716.log
personal.gnucash.20180403092939.log
personal.gnucash.20180403104006.log
personal.gnucash.20180404053709.log

   The newest log file is
personal.gnucash.20180403092939.gnucash.20180404053716.log while the newest
.gnucash file is
personal.gnucash.20180403092939.gnucash.20180403125159.gnucash.

   Can I copy the latter to personal.gnucash so that's the file name
displayed in most-recently opened files? I would like to clean this up.

Regards,

Rich