[GNC] GC CTD lost saved reports

Chris Good goodchris96 at gmail.com
Mon Jun 3 11:28:50 EDT 2019


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> Message: 4
> Date: Sun, 02 Jun 2019 22:34:14 +0200
> From: Geert Janssens <geert.gnucash at kobaltwit.be>
> To: gnucash-user at gnucash.org
> Cc: Elmar <etschme at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [GNC] GC CTD lost saved reports
> Message-ID: <2151924.L4l8CRljWU at legolas.kobaltwit.lan>
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> Op zondag 2 juni 2019 20:37:44 CEST schreef Elmar:
>> OK, this is a weird.  I was editing some of the options in a report,
>> specifically unhighlighting one account and highlighting another to
>> include, and tried to save the report.  GC crashed to desktop. 
>> Reopening it (open anyway), now GC tells me that I have no saved reports
>> at all!  Looking in .gnucash folder, I see saved-reports-2.4 (and its
>> backup file) dated in 2018, so they are there, and they are in the
>> backup 7zip archive dated 15APR2019 (created by BackupGnuCash.jar along
>> with the .gnucash.gcm and the .gnucash files itself).  OTOH aqbanking
>> works fine.  This is GC 3.5 running under Linux Mint 19.1 Mate desktop. 
>> How do I get my reports back? - Elmar
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> For gnucash 3.x and up gnucash looks for this file in
> $HOME/.local/share/gnucash
> Are files in that directory also backed up by BackupGnuCash.jar ? You should 
> restore to that directory as well if you want gnucash to find your saved 
> reports again.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Geert

Hi Elmar and Geert,

Yes latest BackupGnuCash (1.3.1) handles all the default locations for GnuCash 3.x Configuration files.

See
https://github.com/goodvibes2/BackupGnuCashLinux
Or
https://github.com/goodvibes2/BackupGnuCashWin

Regards, Chris Good


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