[GNC] Issues with gnucash files

[Mahon Finbar]

Thank you and happy to see that someone else is confused by filenames 
and suffixes

A screen grab from CaptureWiz of a screen from part of my 'July' GNU search.

My issue was that towards the end of July I had a strange message which 
said I had no rights to save the current transactions to the file I was 
apparently trying to save to. I had no idea were the 'errant' file came 
from.

I put up a text of the message and then went through a series of 
messages about what was happening, with increasing confusion.

All I want to do is find, if possible, the original 'good' file I was 
working on and continue. I would be quite happy to try on the dates in 
the last few days of July, but where to start?

Can anyone identify a likely candidate? For example in the screengrab 
there are a series of files with 496kb on the same time and date on 30 
July, but I am not sure how to start a GNU session to access the 'right' 
file?

Finbar

On 24/08/2023 18:28, Maf. King wrote:
> 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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