[GNC] screwed up my cash acount

[Steve Butler]

Make liberal use of FILE:  SAVE AS.

The default has backups made automatically using your file name as the base
name then adding date and timestamp.  There are stored in the same place as
your file.  It also stores log files there in a similar manner with a .log
extension.



On Mon, Jan 13, 2025, 09:41 bullish bob bagley via gnucash-user <
gnucash-user at gnucash.org> wrote:

> ok mark,
>
> how do you make a backup in gnucash?  extremely new to it.  Thank you
>
> On 1/13/25 11:22 AM, Mark at Lorimark wrote:
> > I have had to do this from time to time when trying to reconcile
> > transactions and trying to reconcile accounts.  I too have 'fooled
> > around so much' and made a mess of things.  I have reconciled a whole
> > year's worth of transactions only to find I just butchered two accounts.
> >
> > I've adopted two principles to mitigate problems;
> >
> > 1. back-up my file before attempting a big operation like
> > reconciliation or importing
> > 2. well, there isn't a #2
> >
> > The back-up is king.
> >
> > ~mark petryk
> > ~w:http://www.lorimarksolutions.com
> >
> > On 1/13/25 11:16, Richard Danielson wrote:
> >> Hello,
> >>
> >> GC 5.9 on a mac mini using sonoma 14.6.1.  I made a futile attempt to
> >> balance my cash starting with the credit line account and then going
> >> to cash.  Used the bank statements to guide my entries.  The problem
> >> was that there was an entry in the credit line statement which didn't
> >> show up on the cash statement.  I fooled around so much that I had to
> >> change a whole month of cash entries from reconciled to not
> >> reconciled.  Then I tried several techniques to change the cash
> >> entries to match the bank statement.  Now I have a garbage cash list
> >> and none of the entries I made to fix things are not showing up in my
> >> general journal or my cash statement.
> >>
> >> The only thing I can see to do now is to go back to an earlier backup
> >> of GC and re-enter the bank statement entries and forget about the
> >> credit line statement.  Any comments?  Thanks.
> >>
> >> Rick
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