[GNC] Disappearing entries

[Michael Hendry]

> On 18 Jun 2020, at 17:22, Derek Atkins <derek at ihtfp.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> On Thu, June 18, 2020 11:48 am, Carl wrote:
> 
>>    Here's the command that's used-     gnucash %f
> 
> Hmm.. This could be part of the issue.  %f probably means "filename".  So
> if you click a file it'll open that one directly and not the main file.
> 
> 
>> Below is the name of my GC file (regardless of the name of the       file
>> below the date and time stamp on the file.....on the far       right of
>> the file manager...is current for when I last used the       file- June 17
>> 2020 at 7 PM
>>          GC January 12 2019.gnucash.20190518080326.gnucash
> 
> AND... here we have what could be part of your issue.  This is a backup
> file.  Specifically, this is a backup file that was generated on May 18,
> 2019 (at 8:03 am).  So at SOME point you started working from a year-old
> backup file.  It's unclear when that happened.  But you have most likely
> forked your data.

Is that a minced oath?

Michael