[GNC] lost data

[Chris Good]

Hi John,

I'm pretty sure there is no secret list of all the gnucash data files you've
opened.

You might like to check you just are not seeing some transactions because of
a filter you've applied:
	In the register, View Filter By

If you still cannot see some transactions, the list of recently opened files
is held (In Windows) int the registry.
This may help:
https://lists.gnucash.org/pipermail/gnucash-user/2018-May/077231.html
See my mail at the end.

Regards, Chris Good

Message: 10
Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2019 10:22:12 +0800
From: John Sears <johndsears at yahoo.com>
To: gnucash-user at gnucash.org
Subject: Re: [GNC] lost data
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Thanks,

Fairly sure its gone somewhere, and I have written over it somehow,? as I
have all the associated files in pdf format, but no transactions in the
accounts :(..? old pc used to do a regular backup, but ...

Thanks anyway, and perhaps there is a list.. which hopfully someone can
point me to, before I start searching my harddrive with a partition
microscope.

Thanks,

John

On 25/1/19 10:13 AM, Adrien Monteleone wrote:
> As far as I know, only those four, so if you?ve been opening files
searching for ?the one? you might have tainted the list. Perhaps one of the
more seasoned users or devs knows if there is a larger master URI list.
>
> One final thing to consider is to check your balances. Are they otherwise
correct? Run a transaction report and only show activity in Q4 (or a
P&L/Income Statement) Do you get blank results or does something show up to
indicate the data is there? If you get decent reporting, perhaps the
register you are viewing is set to some filter.
>
> Other than that, without a backup...
>
> Regards,
> Adrien
>
>> On Jan 24, 2019, at 8:07 PM, John Sears via gnucash-user
<gnucash-user at gnucash.org> wrote:
>>
>> Hi ,
>>
>> Yep I've already tried this, and found various previous versions (
backups  - which I obviously did not do often enough) ..  but none on my
computer with any log files or the transactions for Q4.  I was rather hoping
that GNU cash would list the files with the URI somewhere ( beyond the 4
that it does show under the file tab).  Im assuming that the four listed
files are dydnamic and it only keeps the four URI's?
>>
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> John
>>
>>
>>
>> On 25/1/19 9:51 AM, Adrien Monteleone wrote:
>>> You could use your file manager search function to look for *.gnucash
files.
>>>
>>> But within GnuCash, do this:
>>>
>>> Try to open one of the files in your history list in the File menu. 
>>> If it exists still in that same place, it will open, if not, it will 
>>> tell you the URI of where  it was expected to find it. This might 
>>> give some clue as to where to go looking. (I just did this and 
>>> discovered I had moved a file into a ?finances? subdirectory of its 
>>> former location)
>>>
>>> If it opens successfully, but you need to know where it is stored, go to
Find > Open and you?ll see above the file list is a button based
?breadcrumb? trail showing you the file path.
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Adrien
>>>
>>>> On Jan 24, 2019, at 6:38 PM, John Sears via gnucash-user
<gnucash-user at gnucash.org> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Hi All,
>>>>
>>>> A few months ago,  I moved the location of my GNUcash file (along with
the addressing of the associated linked files - you may remember a post
about this).  I have been living a fairly hectic life since,  moving
country, massively downsizing  etc, and a fairly annoying pc problem.  I am
sure that I did a lot of work on  GNU Cash  in Q4, but noticed the other day
that all of these transactions were missing and that my GNUCash was pointing
at an old GNUCash file.  I've looked everywhere on my computer and USBs for
the file that I think might contain the transactions that I am sure I put in
( It was a lot of work, so I don't want to just retype them again), but I
just cannot find the file.
>>>>
>>>> I notice that GNUCash highlights the  last 4 files that have been 
>>>> opened ( under the file tab) .  Is there a way to see all the files 
>>>> that have been opened historically and their location in the file 
>>>> directory.  I just cannot find the correct file or any logs for the 
>>>> data that I entered in Q4, and at least if I know the possible 
>>>> paths, I might be able to ascertain if the data has somehow managed 
>>>> to be deleted from that location, and then determine my way forward
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Thanks!
>>>>
>>>> john