[GNC] Loss of all data

[John Ralls]

> On Jul 29, 2018, at 7:06 AM, David Finbow <d.finbow1 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Can any one help me ! I¹ve managed to lose/unable to open all my data !
> I updated my Mac OS from 10.6 to ³El Capitan². When I came to open Gnucash I
> got the message ³Could not obtain the lock for file:///.......² on all my
> files.
> The update had corrupted the Gnucash files. There were no .LNK or .LCK files
> to be found. I could get to the files as read only but was not able to save
> any new data. I saved all the Gnucash files to a USB memory stick and then
> deleted all the Gnucash files from the desktop. I then downloaded the most
> recent Gnucash and set up some new files hoping to drop the files from
> memory stick into the new Gnucash files. All that came up were the new empty
> files. Alas the old data seems to have gone although there are log files on
> the memory stick. 


What files did you copy to your USB stick? Do you have a recent backup from before the upgrade of your system disk?

Regards,
John Ralls