[GNC] Fwd: All data gone

[Adrien Monteleone]

It sounds like at some point you created a new empty file with the same 
name, but on a different stick.

Solution:

Delete the empty file so there is no further confusion. (or rename it if 
you are skittish, though the file size should be a hint)
Optionally, also re-label the good stick in Disk Utility to something 
like "GnuCash" or "Finances" so it is obvious as to which one to use or 
is being used.


Regards,
Adrien

On 3/5/26 4:46 PM, Jens Ingemann Jensen wrote:
> David,
> What I did was to take the USB stick on which I had saved the GNC file, plugged it into my MacBook, and then opened GNC.  It said it could not find the usual file, so I went to "File" → "Open" clicked on the file on the USB stick, and it opened a file with the standard expense categories and zero balances and telling me it was "read only".  Then I went back to my iMac and now when I opened GNC the same happened.  Both computers run GNC 5.1
> There was a second USB drive plugged into the iMac of which I had been unaware, and it turned out that the files had been saved there too, but trying to open them from there resulted in the same scenario.
> This all happened on the 15th, and today I plugged in only the second USB stick on my iMac, and I was able to find a file with a time stamp from the 13th on this drive.  I opened GNC and opened this file via the file menu.  It opened and came up with all the missing information.  Miracle.  The first USB stick did not have any files with time stamps earlier than the 15th.  Now I am leary of trying again to run GNC on two computers, but I will try to copy that good file onto a third USB stick and see if it will open on the MacBook.  I travel a bit, therefore the desire to run it on two computers, so I can stay on top of my finances.
> Even if I got my data back, I am still curious what I did wrong.