> From: Matthew Lybanon <[email protected]> > Subject: [GNC] Lost Data > Date: January 7, 2020 at 4:31:14 PM CST > To: "<[email protected]> User" <[email protected]> > > > Gnucash 3.5-1 running on a MacBook Pro under macOS 10.14.6. I’m been using > Gnucash for years for very simple accounting, primarily just maintaining a > checkbook register. Today I had trouble reconciling a bank statement. After > clicking “Finish” the reconciled transactions had a “y” in the appropriate > column, but when I tried to quit Gnucash I got a message saying that > something hadn’t been saved and asking if I wanted to save it. Sorry to be so > vague, but I don’t recall exactly what the message was. > > When I restarted Gnucash the transactions that were previously reconciled > weren’t; they had “n” in place of “y”. I tried to reconcile again, but the > next time I started Gnucash and looked at the register I got the message > > "Report error > > An error occurred while running the report." > > I tried opening an earlier version of the data file (NAME.gnucash.string of > numbers.gnucash) but got the same error message. I have not deleted anything. > I have _.gnucash files, one _.LNK files, _.log files. > > What went wrong and–more important–how can I get the data back? > > > > From: David Cousens <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [GNC] Lost Data > Date: January 7, 2020 at 9:18:47 PM CST > To: [email protected] > > > Matthew > > Not sure what is going on. Were you opening using a recent entry in the File > Open dialog? If so try navigating explicitly to your data file and opening > it explicitly. Before doing so check there are no files with a .LCK > extension in the directory with your data file as these will normally block > opening the file although that should bring uop a dialog allowing you to > override it. Deleting the files with the .LCK extension should not cause any > problems as long as you don't have GnuCash open in another instance. They > are intended to stop multiple instances of the program from opening the same > file at the same time. AFAIK ".LNK" files are Windows created files and > shouldn't have any effect on MacOSX or Linux. The report error tends to > indicate that GnuCash is trying to open a report. Did you have a report tab > open when you last closed the file? > > David Cousens > > > > ----- > David Cousens > -- > Sent from: http://gnucash.1415818.n4.nabble.com/GnuCash-User-f1415819.html > > > > >
Normally I open the Gnucash application which, I understand, by default opens the _.gnucash data file. That now gives the error message. The same thing happens when I open the _.gnucash file explicitly, and the same thing happens when I open one of the the _.gnucash.string of numbers.gnucash files explicitly. Here is a list of all the Gnucash data (and related) files I now have (I got this list from the Terminal application). -rw-r--r--@ 1 matthewlybanon staff 52409 Jan 7 16:02 -rw------- 1 matthewlybanon staff 0 Jan 7 15:54 MAGS Show.gnucash.0.33401.LNK -rw-r--r--@ 1 matthewlybanon staff 2380 Jan 7 11:23 MAGS Show.gnucash.20200107111856.log -rw-r--r--@ 1 matthewlybanon staff 359 Jan 7 15:40 MAGS Show.gnucash.20200107112457.log -rw-r--r--@ 1 matthewlybanon staff 779 Jan 7 15:55 MAGS Show.gnucash.20200107155416.log -rw-r--r--@ 1 matthewlybanon staff 52283 Jan 7 11:24 MAGS Show.gnucash.20200107155657.gnucash -rw-r--r--@ 1 matthewlybanon staff 4370 Jan 7 15:57 MAGS Show.gnucash.20200107155657.log -rw-r--r--@ 1 matthewlybanon staff 4581 Jan 7 16:01 MAGS Show.gnucash.20200107155856.log -rw-r--r--@ 1 matthewlybanon staff 52402 Jan 7 15:56 MAGS Show.gnucash.20200107160232.gnucash -rw-r--r--@ 1 matthewlybanon staff 170 Jan 7 16:02 MAGS Show.gnucash.20200107160232.log I could try to open an older version of MAGS Show.gnucash from a Time Machine backup, but since opening one of the MAGS Show.gnucash.numbers.gnucash files didn’t work I don’t see why that would work, either. It seems as if the problem may be something else. I’m open ot suggestions. _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list [email protected] 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.
