On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 1:30 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > I have tried to put my problem out on the IRC channel but have been unable to > get a response. > > My system (Vista) crashed and had to be reloaded. I of course lost all > programs including GnuCash. I have what I thought was a backup file of my > business books titled DesertDiabetesResources with file type showing as > "file". I have now re loaded the system as well as GnuCash(2.2.9) but have > been unable to retrieve my business books. I see in FAC and some > documentation mentioning XAC files. I do not have this file anywhere. Is the > XAC file the only way I could have got my information back or is there a way > to do it with the DesertDiabetesResources file.
Have you tried opening the DesertDiabetesResources file with Gnucash? >From your description, it doesn't sound hopeful, but it's worth a try. This is too late to help you in this situation, but I'll give you the standard backup lecture. If you do *anything* with a computer that involves writing files containing information that you care about, that you would be unhappy to lose, then you *must* back up your system regularly (you should not accumulate un-backed-up information that you would be unwilling to lose). Hardware fails, software fails, things go wrong. It doesn't happen often, and so people develop a false sense of security and don't bother with backups. But when Murphy turns his attention on you (and if you read his Law, you will note that he will try to do so at the worst possible time) you be happy you foiled him by being conscientious about backups. Hard drives in USB shoeboxes are dirt cheap these days, or USB flash drives can serve as the backup medium, depending on your space requirements, so there's just no excuse, financial or otherwise, for not doing this. I don't use Windows much and, fortunately, I have no experience with Vista, but I use Acronis for Windows backups (it gives you a process for making a bootable CD, which is what I've done, because I don't like running backup software on top of the very system I'm backing up -- I want the backup-ee to be complete quiescent). /Don Allen > > Thanks for your time and any assistance you can give. > > D Fetters > [email protected] > > _______________________________________________ > gnucash-devel mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel > _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
