[GNC] Today's search....for .lck

[Adrien Monteleone]

First, for attachment images, they need to be 'as attachment' and *not* 
inline.

That is, in your e-mail app, attach the screenshot. Do not just paste it 
into the message mixed in with the text.

You may also have a setting in your e-mail app for this to toggle 
between 'inline' and 'attachment'. For the mailing list - you *do not* 
want 'inline'. (the mailing list software will simply strip them out of 
the message)

Second, if you say there are hundreds of files, a screenshot isn't going 
to cut it anyway. (it would take many screenshots)

I'm not well versed on Windows command line, so without me spending time 
looking it up, maybe someone else who knows off the top of their head 
can advise a command that will export your file list to a text file that 
you can attach here. Of course, you'd want to use whatever options are 
available to include the original creation date & time, as well as a 
last modified date & time. (those can be shown or not shown as desired)

 From that list, we should be able to reasonably guess which is your 
latest file (or maybe even several candidates for it) and then you can 
open them and confirm.

I suspect though, that you have a condition where there are transactions 
in one file that aren't in another, and vice versa. And this may involve 
more than 2 files. You'll have to decipher that for yourself once you 
figure out the file situation, and then we can proceed with helping you 
consolidate them into one book.

Lastly, it would be good to get a handle on how this happened in the 
first place, so the problem doesn't continue to compound.

But I too don't think you lost any data unless you started deleting 
.gnucash files without backups. (.lck files aren't necessarily a problem)

.gcm files store some preferences for each book. It would be best not to 
lose those for now, but losing them wouldn't be data lost.

Regards,
Adrien

On 8/7/23 10:03 AM, Mahon Finbar via gnucash-user wrote:
> Thank you for that. However, a file search for any file of that 
> structure only delivers 1 dated 18.02.2022, which I have mentioned in an 
> earlier post is the date on my 'currently loaded' file which won't save.
> 
> There are a number of files with .GCM and number with LCK dated 2021, 
> others with .log, many more (recent ones) with shortcut.

What do you mean by 'shortcut'? They are pointing to other gnucash files 
in some other location? This is concerning...

> 
> All the rest are datestamped.
> 
> You can see why I am confused and very worried that I have lost all the 
> recent data.
> 
> Thanks to all for the help and advice. I feel stupid, I thought I was 
> reasonably capable in IT, but......
> 
> I even have problems creating  the proper . versions for uploading..... 
> 'save as' doesn't seem to be working.