[GNC] Disappearing entries

[D.]

Hard to say how bad this is. I'd start with the newest data file (by modification date) that does NOT include the 14-digit timestamp, and see what was there. That may or may not be the file named "GC January 12 2019.gnucash". More likely it's newer ("GC January 15 2020.gnucash", for example).

You would then be able to tell how many different times you opened a backup by seeing how many log files were created after that last file. Working on a spare copy of that last file, you could try running the log files dated afterward to recreate the work. This may or may not work, depending on whether you changed the account structure. If it works, great. If not, you'll have to recreate the transactions manually. 

I avoid this problem by only having one simply named basic data file in my data directory (in my case, "accounts.gnucash"). Backups and dated storage copies get placed in remote folders to keep the idiot from screwing things up (which he is very good at!).

David T. 


-------- Original Message --------
From: look at ipadring.net
Sent: Thu Jun 18 13:32:14 EDT 2020
To: "D." <sunfish62 at yahoo.com>, Michael Hendry <hendry.michael at gmail.com>
Cc: Derek Atkins <derek at ihtfp.com>, Gnucash Users <gnucash-user at gnucash.org>
Subject: Re: [GNC] Disappearing entries

Ok, how do I fix this...or what file should I use?

Carl

On June 18, 2020 4:50:11 PM UTC, "D." <sunfish62 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>I'd definitely agree that his data is forked. Both ways!
>
>
>-------- Original Message --------
>From: Michael Hendry <hendry.michael at gmail.com>
>Sent: Thu Jun 18 12:27:13 EDT 2020
>To: Derek Atkins <derek at ihtfp.com>
>Cc: gnucash-user at gnucash.org, Carl <look at ipadring.net>
>Subject: Re: [GNC] Disappearing entries
>
>> 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
>
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