Hi David,
Ill check some of these out, but I have done a fairly extensive search
on my laptop already.. so fear the worst
I think your description of what has happened is spot on... the trouble
is that in the meantime I think I have done a lot off "cleaning up", and
I am sort of dreadign that I have assigned it to the rubbish bin, and
its already been overwritten on file ( my hard disk is now in read only
status, but I fear I may have spotted it too late)
Thanks a lot!
john
On 25/1/19 10:21 AM, David Cousens wrote:
John,
If Adrien's suggestions don't work the following site has techniques for
finding files on windows
https://edu.gcfglobal.org/en/windowsbasics/finding-files-on-your-computer/1/
and for Linux
https://www.linode.com/docs/tools-reference/tools/find-files-in-linux-using-the-command-line/.
Looking for files with .gnucash extensions starting with your home directory
and then expanding the search is your best
bet. ($find <path> -name "*.gnucash" will find all occurrences in the directory
pointed to by path in Linux).
A common problem which occurs sometimes is having opened a backup file (which
is located in the same directory as your
main file) and then subsequently opening the main file again. Your missing
transactions could be in a backup file. See
https://www.gnucash.org/docs/v3/C/gnucash-guide/basics-backup1.html.
David Cousens
On Fri, 2019-01-25 at 08:38 +0800, John Sears via gnucash-user wrote:
Hi All,
A few months ago, I moved the location of my GNUcash file (along with
the addressing of the associated linked files - you may remember a post
about this). I have been living a fairly hectic life since, moving
country, massively downsizing etc, and a fairly annoying pc problem. I
am sure that I did a lot of work on GNU Cash in Q4, but noticed the
other day that all of these transactions were missing and that my
GNUCash was pointing at an old GNUCash file. I've looked everywhere on
my computer and USBs for the file that I think might contain the
transactions that I am sure I put in ( It was a lot of work, so I don't
want to just retype them again), but I just cannot find the file.
I notice that GNUCash highlights the last 4 files that have been opened
( under the file tab) . Is there a way to see all the files that have
been opened historically and their location in the file directory. I
just cannot find the correct file or any logs for the data that I
entered in Q4, and at least if I know the possible paths, I might be
able to ascertain if the data has somehow managed to be deleted from
that location, and then determine my way forward
Thanks!
john
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