Hard to say how bad this is. I'd start with the newest data file (by
modification date) that does NOT include the 14-digit timestamp, and see what
was there. That may or may not be the file named "GC January 12 2019.gnucash".
More likely it's newer ("GC January 15 2020.gnucash", for example).
You would then be able to tell how many different times you opened a backup by
seeing how many log files were created after that last file. Working on a spare
copy of that last file, you could try running the log files dated afterward to
recreate the work. This may or may not work, depending on whether you changed
the account structure. If it works, great. If not, you'll have to recreate the
transactions manually.
I avoid this problem by only having one simply named basic data file in my data
directory (in my case, "accounts.gnucash"). Backups and dated storage copies
get placed in remote folders to keep the idiot from screwing things up (which
he is very good at!).
David T.
-------- Original Message --------
From: [email protected]
Sent: Thu Jun 18 13:32:14 EDT 2020
To: "D." <[email protected]>, Michael Hendry <[email protected]>
Cc: Derek Atkins <[email protected]>, Gnucash Users <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [GNC] Disappearing entries
Ok, how do I fix this...or what file should I use?
Carl
On June 18, 2020 4:50:11 PM UTC, "D." <[email protected]> wrote:
>I'd definitely agree that his data is forked. Both ways!
>
>
>-------- Original Message --------
>From: Michael Hendry <[email protected]>
>Sent: Thu Jun 18 12:27:13 EDT 2020
>To: Derek Atkins <[email protected]>
>Cc: [email protected], Carl <[email protected]>
>Subject: Re: [GNC] Disappearing entries
>
>> On 18 Jun 2020, at 17:22, Derek Atkins <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> On Thu, June 18, 2020 11:48 am, Carl wrote:
>>
>>> Here's the command that's used- gnucash %f
>>
>> Hmm.. This could be part of the issue. %f probably means "filename".
> So
>> if you click a file it'll open that one directly and not the main
>file.
>>
>>
>>> Below is the name of my GC file (regardless of the name of the
>file
>>> below the date and time stamp on the file.....on the far right
>of
>>> the file manager...is current for when I last used the file-
>June 17
>>> 2020 at 7 PM
>>> GC January 12 2019.gnucash.20190518080326.gnucash
>>
>> AND... here we have what could be part of your issue. This is a
>backup
>> file. Specifically, this is a backup file that was generated on May
>18,
>> 2019 (at 8:03 am). So at SOME point you started working from a
>year-old
>> backup file. It's unclear when that happened. But you have most
>likely
>> forked your data.
>
>Is that a minced oath?
>
>Michael
>
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