[GNC] Issues with gnucash files

[Maf. King]

Barry,

thanks for the update.

The *.log and *.gcm files are not your data.  no idea what *.msf and *.dmp 
would be (maybe a crash dump?).    Your main data file will most likely be a 
*,gnucash file.

As to backups and datestamps etc.... see the attached image.  

mafs-new-accs.xac is my data file (.xac is the very old suffix, it still works 
and ,gnucash is equivalent.  I'm just old-school)

ignore the .logs

you can see the datestamps are YYYYMMDDhhmmss which should help you decipher 
your list.

the first backup in my image is 20230824120845.   So it was made today 
(2023-08-24 at 12:08:45) ..... as you can see, that time matches the "create 
time/date" for the base file.

hope that helps you with the deciphering, if you can't get us a screenshot.

Just try to find the *.gnucash file with the most recent date stamp in the name,  
move it into a new folder, call it something sensible and open it.  see what 
transactions GC says is there.  Add a test txn in and try to save it.

Good luck
Maf.




On Thursday, 24 August 2023 16:14:26 BST Mahon Finbar via gnucash-user wrote:
> This is an update of sorts of a long series of messages here since I had
> an issue with saving my transactions at the end of July.
> 
> I was unable to copy and send GNU files to the kind people who tried to
> help me. I have no idea why, copy and paste after changing to the file
> type required just did not work.
> 
> There were many messages concerning why I seemed to have more than one
> set of GNU files with  different user names, and at different times.
> 
> I have now downloaded all the files containing "GNU" for the period of
> July 2023.
> 
> There is bewildering list with an equally bewildering number of names,
> suffixes, etc., such as -
> 
> 16  files of type  - gnucash.trace.YXDV81.log each one duplicated and
> where only the alphanumeric is different
> 
> A large number of 'shortcuts' and many files which I think are backups
> with several date strings in the same file.
> 
> I have not been able to decipher these nor files with .msf or .gcm or
> .dmp or GnuCash_is1 !!
> 
> Maybe I have made numerous errors, and unwittingly put files in
> different places or formats, but..... I am a longtime user of GNU, most
> of the current longer files start with GNU FEB 12 2019.gnucash.....
> 
> Finally, all the files I have now are in Documents
> (C:\users\administrato) with various sub-addresses. That seems to have
> sorted the issue with one of the issues raised in a message -
> 
> "Be sure you aren't confusing the two users on your system! (one is
> "Barry Mahon" and the other is "administrato""
> 
> 
> Any help at this stage would be welcome. I have a tax declaration to do
> by mid November.
> 
> I would be willing to start all over again and re-enter the 2022
> transactions, the tax year concerned, and create a new 2023 set of
> transactions to continue.
> 
> Finbar
> 
> 


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