[GNC] Recovering from logs

[Ed Greenberg]

These are the newest four files in my gnucash directory::

-rw-r--r-- 1 edg edg 1299882 Dec 31 12:53 edg-from-2025-12-04.gnucash.20251231125857.gnucash
-rw-r--r-- 1 edg edg    4809 Dec 31 12:58 edg-from-2025-12-04.gnucash.20251231125358.log
-rw-r--r-- 1 edg edg 1300077 Dec 31 12:58 edg-from-2025-12-04.gnucash
-rw-r--r-- 1 edg edg     170 Dec 31 12:58 edg-from-2025-12-04.gnucash.20251231125857.log


The files are all based on

edg-from-2025-12-04.gnucash

 From top to bottom, I'll call them 1, 2, 3, 4 for ease of writing and 
reading.

*Please tell me if any of these statements are wrong, and if you can 
answer the fourth statement, I'd appreciate it.*

* Line 3 is my main file as saved after the last run.

* Line 1 is the file before I started the last session

* Line 2 is the log of the transactions that took me from line 1 to line 
3.   If I open the file on line 1 and replay the log on line 2, I should 
get something that matches line 3.

* Line 4 has no files, just a set of headers. It seems newer than the 
main gnucash file on line 3, so I wonder what it is ever for.

Thanks,

Ed Greenberg