New File Name ??

[Colin Law]

On 24 January 2018 at 20:49, Mike Stillingfleet <
mikestillingfleet at fastmail.co.uk> wrote:

> Thank you Colin. That remedial action makes sense. I remain mystified as
> to how the name got changed. Verification of which file has all the right
> data in it isn't as simple as y sounds. I know the reconciliation dates are
> right in the new file.  But going back and checking thousands of prior
> period entries isn't feasible.
>

As I said, If you look at the date stamps embedded in the backup file names
you will be able to see in what order you edited things, so you can see if
the track is continuous down the original file, then switches to the new
file and stays there, in which case the new file should have everything in
it. If the timestamps of the two file tracks are interleaved then you have
a bigger problem.

Colin


>
>
> On Wed, Jan 24, 2018, at 2:51 PM, Colin Law wrote:
>
> On 24 January 2018 at 13:57, Mike Stillingfleet <
> mikestillingfleet at fastmail.co.uk> wrote:
>
> Dear All,
>
> I have just noticed (after doing a lot of work on GNU Cash) that the file
> name has changed. I now have a file  call Bank Expenses.gnucash.
>
> When I click on file I see my old file name as "2" and the new file new as
> "1".
>
> I didn't ever request a new file name.
>
>
> Where did this new file name come from???
>
> When I clicked on file 2 the screen went gray and said it was an unsaved
> file and the reconiliation dates do not match. i.e. vast amount of work
> missing from my old file.
>
> Can some one explain this. Can some please tell me how I should proceed
> without losing all my work!!
>
>
> If the new file has the correct data then open open it and select File >
> Save As to save it as another new name, then you can carry on using it
> while you try to understand where it came from.
>
> If you do a full directory listing of the folder then you will also see
> all the backup files with embedded timestamps in the name and should be
> able to work out what happened.
>
> When you clicked on file 2 and it says it was unsaved are you sure it was
> not saying that you had made just made a change to file 1 (possibly via a
> scheduled transaction) and that it was warning you that you were switching
> files without saving the work?
>
> Colin
>
>
>
> Thanks
>
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