Dear Maf, Thank you for your quick reply.
I do not use file manager or any software connected to Windows or PC. I am not clicking on the data files. I am trying to open them thru the GnuCash drop down menu ‘Open’ and using that option to research my files to see if I can find anything that might be a file saved before the crash and my creation of a .LNK file. I back up my entire computer using two external hard drives and I also have the Apple built in program called Time Machine that backs up. I sent three screenshots as attachments to my original message to everyone. Why don’t they get thru..? Does your email list somehow prevent that? Thank you. Anita Sent from my iPad > On Nov 4, 2018, at 10:54 AM, Maf. King <m...@chilwell.net> wrote: > > Hi Anita. > > I don't use a Mac, but I do know that you can't click-on-a-datafile to open > it, > you have to explicitly use the GC menu to File->Open an alternative (ie > backup) file on Macs. > > If you are clicking on backups in the file manager, this might explain some > of > the behaviour you are seeing. > > Also, your screenshot didn't make it through to the list - so not sure what > screen you are seeing! > > HTH, > Maf. > > > >> On Sunday, 4 November 2018 08:43:41 GMT Anita Graves via gnucash-user wrote: >> Dear all you GnuCash geniuses, >> >> I had a GnuCash crash and suddenly I tried to reopen the file and it gave me >> the option to quit, or open anyway, and I quickly and without thinking or >> knowing any better, clicked ‘open anyway’ and that was the end of my life >> as we know it. >> >> Besides the fact that now I cannot access my checking account or other >> ‘operative’ accounts, the hierarchy of my accounts was changed, and they >> appear in a very different order than what I had been working with. >> >> I am trying to find older files that might work for me, but whenever I try >> to open one, I get this same screen (shown below in the screenshot) where I >> have two GnuCash windows with the .LNK file superimposed on top of my real >> stuff. And no ‘recent’ alternative in the file open dropdown menu. >> >> I do not have any idea why GnuCash crashed in the first place. >> >> Just to inform you: I use Apple Mac, OS Mojave, OS 10.14, with all the >> latest upgrades, etc. And I installed GnuCash 3.3 just these days I am >> mentioning. >> >> If you can do so, please help me convert my depression into pure joy and >> radiance. I tried using Time Machine to help, but it doesn’t go far enough >> back to show my ‘real’ file. I do have external backups but was not using >> them at the time this ‘incident’ happened, and I am going to my office to >> get them now, and in a few minutes hope to have something a bit older to >> resurrect, but everything I have tried to open any file in my upgraded >> version of GnuCash it shows this same overladen double account screen. >> Please refer to my screenshots below. >> >> I do not know what I am doing, and I do not know, truly, how I got here but >> I love GnuCash so much! Now, I can hardly believe I have to start this >> entire fiscal year over again and enter absolutely everything all over >> again and start from scratch with all my accounts. >> >> Thank you so much for your compassionate interest and professional guidance! >> >> Anita! > > > -- > Maf. King > PGP Key fingerprint = 8D68 A91F 733B 2C1F 43B7 2B7C E591 E8E1 0DE7 C542 > > > > > _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
