[GNC] Disappearing entries

[Carl]

   Well, as it was supposed to happen, all worked out well.  Just changed
   the biggest file or the one named below to some generic file name.  It
   works fine....so far.
   Thanks, all,
   Carl
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   From: D. [[1]mailto:sunfish62 at yahoo.com]
   Subject: [GNC] Disappearing entries
   Date: Thursday, June 18, 2020, 2:34 PM
   To: Carl
   Cc: Michael Hendry; Gnucash Users

Hard to say how bad this is. I'd start with the newest data file (by modificatio
n date) that does NOT include the 14-digit timestamp, and see what was there. Th
at 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 s
eeing how many log files were created after that last file. Working on a spare c
opy of that last file, you could try running the log files dated afterward to re
create 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 trans
actions 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.


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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." [7]<sunfish62 at yahoo.com> wrote:

I'd definitely agree that his data is forked. Both ways!


-------- Original Message --------
From: Michael Hendry [8]<hendry.michael at gmail.com>
Sent: Thu Jun 18 12:27:13 EDT 2020
To: Derek Atkins [9]<derek at ihtfp.com>
Cc: [10]gnucash-user at gnucash.org, Carl [11]<look at ipadring.net>
Subject: Re: [GNC] Disappearing entries


On 18 Jun 2020, at 17:22, Derek Atkins [12]<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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