Jens, Please reply to the group, not to individuals. How can you tell that your data is corrupted?
---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Jens Ingemann Jensen <[email protected]> Date: Fri, Feb 20, 2026 at 11:40 AM Subject: Re: [GNC] All data gone To: David Carlson <[email protected]> Dear David. Thank you for offering to help. I have used GnuCash for years without problems and been happy with it as it gives me a feeling of control of my finances. I have used it on a Mac Intel silicon desktop running MacOS 13.7.8, but also wanted to use it on my portable MacBook Pro with Apple silicon running MacOS 26.3 and I wonder if that is the reason for my problems. For portability I kept the files on a USB stick, but I had forgotten that another USB stick was connected at the back of the computer (out of sight out of...) and both of them had current files on them. The same problem showed up whichever stick I tried. Every time I moved the stick I had to close the file, so now there are a whole lot of inaccessible files on the sticks. Trying to open an older file resulted in that one being corrupted too, so I stopped that practice. I used to be computer literate in the days of Teletypes, paper tape, punch cards and DOS, but I have not kept up now that everything is hidden behind windows and ikons. I have a quite limited exrerience with Unux on DEC systems (I wrote my thesis on such a system) which the research lab I worked in ran those systems, but I know about permissions and the like. If you can help me get years of data back I shall be very happy. Kind regards Jens -----Original Message----- From: David Carlson <[email protected]> Sent: Feb 16, 2026 4:05 PM To: Jens Ingemann Jensen <[email protected]> Cc: <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [GNC] All data gone Jens, Hopefully the transactions aren't actually gone. Did you verify that you opened the correct data file on the correct USB stick when you went back to the old computer? Also, if both computers are not running the same operating systems there may be differences in methods to open files, etc. to be aware of. On Mon, Feb 16, 2026 at 2:48 PM Jens Ingemann Jensen < [email protected]> wrote: > I wanted to transfer Gnucash to another computer and had the file on a USB > stick. When I opened it on the new computer I received the message > “expense account is read only”. I checked and it the “placeholder” box was > not checked. I then tried the old computer again but now all the > transactions were gone. Thank you for any help. You can give. > T > _______________________________________________ > gnucash-user mailing list > [email protected] > To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: > https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user > ----- > Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. > You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All. -- David Carlson -- David Carlson _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list [email protected] To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
