[GNC] Accidentally Created .LNK file and now my entire GnuCash file is overwritten and I can't get back to work
Anita Graves
anitagraves at mac.com
Sun Nov 4 04:18:55 EST 2018
Dear Maf,
Thank you for your quick reply.
I do not use file manager or any software connected to Windows or PC.
I am not clicking on the data files. I am trying to open them thru the GnuCash drop down menu ‘Open’ and using that option to research my files to see if I can find anything that might be a file saved before the crash and my creation of a .LNK file. I back up my entire computer using two external hard drives and I also have the Apple built in program called Time Machine that backs up.
I sent three screenshots as attachments to my original message to everyone. Why don’t they get thru..? Does your email list somehow prevent that?
Thank you. Anita
Sent from my iPad
> On Nov 4, 2018, at 10:54 AM, Maf. King <maf at chilwell.net> wrote:
>
> Hi Anita.
>
> I don't use a Mac, but I do know that you can't click-on-a-datafile to open it,
> you have to explicitly use the GC menu to File->Open an alternative (ie
> backup) file on Macs.
>
> If you are clicking on backups in the file manager, this might explain some of
> the behaviour you are seeing.
>
> Also, your screenshot didn't make it through to the list - so not sure what
> screen you are seeing!
>
> HTH,
> Maf.
>
>
>
>> On Sunday, 4 November 2018 08:43:41 GMT Anita Graves via gnucash-user wrote:
>> Dear all you GnuCash geniuses,
>>
>> I had a GnuCash crash and suddenly I tried to reopen the file and it gave me
>> the option to quit, or open anyway, and I quickly and without thinking or
>> knowing any better, clicked ‘open anyway’ and that was the end of my life
>> as we know it.
>>
>> Besides the fact that now I cannot access my checking account or other
>> ‘operative’ accounts, the hierarchy of my accounts was changed, and they
>> appear in a very different order than what I had been working with.
>>
>> I am trying to find older files that might work for me, but whenever I try
>> to open one, I get this same screen (shown below in the screenshot) where I
>> have two GnuCash windows with the .LNK file superimposed on top of my real
>> stuff. And no ‘recent’ alternative in the file open dropdown menu.
>>
>> I do not have any idea why GnuCash crashed in the first place.
>>
>> Just to inform you: I use Apple Mac, OS Mojave, OS 10.14, with all the
>> latest upgrades, etc. And I installed GnuCash 3.3 just these days I am
>> mentioning.
>>
>> If you can do so, please help me convert my depression into pure joy and
>> radiance. I tried using Time Machine to help, but it doesn’t go far enough
>> back to show my ‘real’ file. I do have external backups but was not using
>> them at the time this ‘incident’ happened, and I am going to my office to
>> get them now, and in a few minutes hope to have something a bit older to
>> resurrect, but everything I have tried to open any file in my upgraded
>> version of GnuCash it shows this same overladen double account screen.
>> Please refer to my screenshots below.
>>
>> I do not know what I am doing, and I do not know, truly, how I got here but
>> I love GnuCash so much! Now, I can hardly believe I have to start this
>> entire fiscal year over again and enter absolutely everything all over
>> again and start from scratch with all my accounts.
>>
>> Thank you so much for your compassionate interest and professional guidance!
>>
>> Anita!
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