Re: [GNC] Lost data Fie

[Gyle McCollam]

Frank,
Upgrading the program should not affect the data files
Also, please send help requests to the list. You will get faster answers.


Sent from Samsung Galaxy smartphone.


 Original message 
From: Frank Ashby 
Date: 3/29/23 9:31 AM (GMT-05:00)
To: Gyle McCollam 
Subject: Re: Lost data Fie

Thank you so much Gyle.  I just received and email indicating there is a new 
software update available.  Is there a specific process to follow to migrate to 
the new version without loss of the dat file??


Kindest Regards,

Frank H. Ashby,  Jr.

Drilling Engineering and Business Development Advisor
Reprise Ventures, LP

Cell: +1 281-723-4443
frank.as...@repriseventures.com

“I-N-T-E-G-R-I-T-Y”


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On Jul 22, 2022, at 20:01, Gyle McCollam  wrote:

Go to "Help", Tutorial and Concepts guide and type in log file.  It gives you a 
detailed explanation of how to restore your data file by opening the last save 
file and using the log file to update any changes.

Thank You,
Gyle McCollam
Gyle McCollam
gmccol...@live.com<mailto:gmccol...@gyleshomes.com>   email

From: gnucash-user 
mailto:gnucash-user-bounces+gylemc=gmail@gnucash.org>>
 on behalf of Frank Ashby 
mailto:frank.as...@repriseventures.com>>
Sent: Thursday, July 21, 2022 7:19 AM
To: gnucash-user@gnucash.org<mailto:gnucash-user@gnucash.org> 
mailto:gnucash-user@gnucash.org>>
Subject: [GNC] Lost data Fie

I was attempting to enter a spit transaction last evening and somehow lost the 
genre data file.  Any recommendations??
Kindest Regards,

Frank H. Ashby,  Jr.

Drilling Engineering and Business Development Advisor
Reprise Ventures, LP

Cell: +1 281-723-4443
frank.as...@repriseventures.com<mailto:frank.as...@repriseventures.com><mailto:frank.as...@repriseventures.com>

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Re: [GNC] Lost data Fie

[Gyle McCollam]

Go to "Help", Tutorial and Concepts guide and type in log file.  It gives you a 
detailed explanation of how to restore your data file by opening the last save 
file and using the log file to update any changes.


Thank You,

Gyle McCollam

Gyle McCollam

gmccol...@live.com<mailto:gmccol...@gyleshomes.com>   email


From: gnucash-user  on 
behalf of Frank Ashby 
Sent: Thursday, July 21, 2022 7:19 AM
To: gnucash-user@gnucash.org 
Subject: [GNC] Lost data Fie

I was attempting to enter a spit transaction last evening and somehow lost the 
genre data file.  Any recommendations??
Kindest Regards,

Frank H. Ashby,  Jr.

Drilling Engineering and Business Development Advisor
Reprise Ventures, LP

Cell: +1 281-723-4443
frank.as...@repriseventures.com<mailto:frank.as...@repriseventures.com>

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[GNC] Lost data Fie

[Frank Ashby]

I was attempting to enter a spit transaction last evening and somehow lost the 
genre data file.  Any recommendations??
Kindest Regards,

Frank H. Ashby,  Jr.

Drilling Engineering and Business Development Advisor
Reprise Ventures, LP

Cell: +1 281-723-4443
frank.as...@repriseventures.com

“I-N-T-E-G-R-I-T-Y”


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Re: [GNC] Lost Data

[David Cousens]

Matthew,

That seems like a useful strategy. You may be able to get more information
about what is happening if you examine the trace file
(https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Tracefile  se the MacOSX section) immediately
after running Gnucash on a restored copy of the file. AFAIK it is
overwritten each time GnuCash is run. I doubt if the default install for
MacOSX is built with the --debug option, which increases the amount of
debugging information generated, but some additional info on errors may be
in the tracefile. I run on Linux not a Mac. John Ralls generally can provide
more specific info on MacOSX problems.

David Cousens



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Re: [GNC] Lost Data

[Matthew Lybanon]

Sorry, something happened to the first line of the listing I included in my 
last post when I pasted it into the message. The correct first line is

 -rw-r--r--@ 1 matthewlybanon  staff  52409 Jan  7 16:02 MAGS Show.gnucash

I tried opening it by navigating directly to that file, and got the “Report 
error …” message. I also tried opening one of the backup files (from the 
Gnucash file menu, without first renaming it MAGS Show.gnucash). Same result.

I suspect something may have happened to my copy of the Gnucash program. There 
were a few peculiarities when I ran it yesterday. I entered one transaction 
(the same way I have previously entered hundreds of transactions), and it ended 
up with the year 1899 attached to that line. I changed the date to 2019, and 
things looked normal. But when I tried to reconcile the December 2019 bank 
statement something about the process seemed different. Again, sorry to be so 
vague but I can’t quite put my finger on what was wrong.

I will retrieve a _.gnucash file from several days ago from my Time Machine 
backup, make sure it is called MAGS Show.gnucash (I’ll hide the current MAGS 
Show.gnucash in a temporary folder), and see if Gnucash can open it. If that 
doesn’t work then I don’t think it will hurt to reinstall Gnucash.app and see 
if that solves the problem.


Begin forwarded message:

> From: David Cousens 
> Subject: Re: [GNC] Lost Data
> Date: January 7, 2020 at 11:13:18 PM CST
> To: Matthew Lybanon , " 
> User" 
> 
> Matthew,
> 
> One thing that is immediately obvious in your list of files is that there 
> currently is no active data file in the
> dirctory you have listed.  The data file would appears as
> 
> MAGS Show.gnucash
> 
> in that listing. All the files you have shown are either backup or log files.
> 
> MAGS Show.gnucash.20200107155657.gnucash is a backup file created on 7th 
> January 2020 at 15:56:57
> and
> MAGS Show.gnucash.20200107160232.gnucash is a backup file created on 7th 
> January 2020 at 16:02:32
> which appears to be the last time you successfully opened GnuCash.  I would 
> make a copy of this file and then rename the
> copy to
> 
> MAGS Show.gnucash .
> 
> You should then be able to open that file withiout any problem. The file
> 
> MAGS Show.gnucash.20200107160232.log
> 
> should have a record of the transactions you entered/reconciled since 
> 16:02:32.
> 
> Under the File->Import submenu you will find an entry "Replay GnuCash .log 
> file. If you click on that entry a file
> selection dialog will come up. If you navigate to that last log file 
> 
> MAGS Show.gnucash.20200107160232.log
> 
> and open the file and your reconciliation should be replayed into the 
> register.  When it has completed either use Save
> from the toolbar or File->Save from the menu (not File->Save As as that will 
> rename the file with a new name and/or
> location). It is normally greyed out unless the data has been changed since 
> either opening or the last save but
> replaying the log file should activate it. With any luck that should fix your 
> problem. If not come back to the mailing
> list and tell us what happens when you try the above.
> 
> David Cousens
> 
> On Tue, 2020-01-07 at 22:13 -0600, Matthew Lybanon wrote:
>>> From: Matthew Lybanon 
>>> Subject: [GNC] Lost Data
>>> Date: January 7, 2020 at 4:31:14 PM CST
>>> To: " User" 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 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

Re: [GNC] Lost Data

[David Cousens]

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? 

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[GNC] Lost Data

[Matthew Lybanon]

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?
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Re: [GNC] lost data

[Michael or Penny Novack]

On 1/24/2019 10:55 PM, Chris Good wrote:

Hi John,

I'm pretty sure there is no secret list of all the gnucash data files you've
opened.
This is not a different problem than finding OTHER data on your computer 
(data created by other apps, say a document created by a word 
processor). Your operating system provides tools to find files by 
various "hooks" (name searches, date created or modified, etc. )


So let's star with name. Do you have ANY ideas of what you might have 
named your data files? How about the file extension? Would all of your 
gnucash data files ended with the same .xyz? (say .gnucash). Even if 
your DATA file might not (some of mine don't) gnucash would have been 
creating backup and log files in the same directory (file folder) so you 
could search for all files ending .log or .gnucash --- try the latter as 
other applications might be creating files ending in .log but unlikely 
anything but gnucash creating ones ending in .gnucash
REMEMBER --- if you weren't naming your data files to end .gnucash, the 
ones you find in that directory ending .gnucash are not what you want, 
just getting you to the right directory and showing you earlier parts of 
the name you forgot.


Michael D Novack

PS -- once you know the NAME of your data file, you can start gnucash 
and tell it (file=>open) to open THAT file instead of selecting from the 
list of four.

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Re: [GNC] lost data

[Chris Good]

Hi John,

I'm pretty sure there is no secret list of all the gnucash data files you've
opened.

You might like to check you just are not seeing some transactions because of
a filter you've applied:
In the register, View Filter By

If you still cannot see some transactions, the list of recently opened files
is held (In Windows) int the registry.
This may help:
https://lists.gnucash.org/pipermail/gnucash-user/2018-May/077231.html
See my mail at the end.

Regards, Chris Good

Message: 10
Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2019 10:22:12 +0800
From: John Sears 
To: gnucash-user@gnucash.org
Subject: Re: [GNC] lost data
Message-ID: <32da9d3b-4650-292e-e82d-6b325c4f5...@yahoo.com>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed

Thanks,

Fairly sure its gone somewhere, and I have written over it somehow,? as I
have all the associated files in pdf format, but no transactions in the
accounts :(..? old pc used to do a regular backup, but ...

Thanks anyway, and perhaps there is a list.. which hopfully someone can
point me to, before I start searching my harddrive with a partition
microscope.

Thanks,

John

On 25/1/19 10:13 AM, Adrien Monteleone wrote:
> As far as I know, only those four, so if you?ve been opening files
searching for ?the one? you might have tainted the list. Perhaps one of the
more seasoned users or devs knows if there is a larger master URI list.
>
> One final thing to consider is to check your balances. Are they otherwise
correct? Run a transaction report and only show activity in Q4 (or a
P/Income Statement) Do you get blank results or does something show up to
indicate the data is there? If you get decent reporting, perhaps the
register you are viewing is set to some filter.
>
> Other than that, without a backup...
>
> Regards,
> Adrien
>
>> On Jan 24, 2019, at 8:07 PM, John Sears via gnucash-user
 wrote:
>>
>> Hi ,
>>
>> Yep I've already tried this, and found various previous versions (
backups  - which I obviously did not do often enough) ..  but none on my
computer with any log files or the transactions for Q4.  I was rather hoping
that GNU cash would list the files with the URI somewhere ( beyond the 4
that it does show under the file tab).  Im assuming that the four listed
files are dydnamic and it only keeps the four URI's?
>>
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> John
>>
>>
>>
>> On 25/1/19 9:51 AM, Adrien Monteleone wrote:
>>> You could use your file manager search function to look for *.gnucash
files.
>>>
>>> But within GnuCash, do this:
>>>
>>> Try to open one of the files in your history list in the File menu. 
>>> If it exists still in that same place, it will open, if not, it will 
>>> tell you the URI of where  it was expected to find it. This might 
>>> give some clue as to where to go looking. (I just did this and 
>>> discovered I had moved a file into a ?finances? subdirectory of its 
>>> former location)
>>>
>>> If it opens successfully, but you need to know where it is stored, go to
Find > Open and you?ll see above the file list is a button based
?breadcrumb? trail showing you the file path.
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Adrien
>>>
>>>> On Jan 24, 2019, at 6:38 PM, 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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Re: [GNC] lost data

[Adrien Monteleone]

In a worst case, there are linux-based data recovery tools you can run from a 
live cd that can image the drive and rebuild files from that image.

Deleting a file and even emptying the trash does not necessarily destroy the 
data, but simply prevents the OS from accessing it and frees up the disk space 
to be written to. (it may not have been re-used yet)

However, the time involved in doing such a recovery may be greater than simply 
re-entering the data if you have it in some other form.

Best of luck.

Regards,
Adrien

> On Jan 24, 2019, at 8:39 PM, John Sears via gnucash-user 
>  wrote:
> 
> 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
> 


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Re: [GNC] lost data

[John Sears via gnucash-user]

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  -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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Re: [GNC] lost data

[John Sears via gnucash-user]

Thanks,

Fairly sure its gone somewhere, and I have written over it somehow,  as 
I have all the associated files in pdf format, but no transactions in 
the accounts :(..  old pc used to do a regular backup, but ...


Thanks anyway, and perhaps there is a list.. which hopfully someone can 
point me to, before I start searching my harddrive with a partition 
microscope.


Thanks,

John

On 25/1/19 10:13 AM, Adrien Monteleone wrote:

As far as I know, only those four, so if you’ve been opening files searching 
for “the one” you might have tainted the list. Perhaps one of the more seasoned 
users or devs knows if there is a larger master URI list.

One final thing to consider is to check your balances. Are they otherwise correct? 
Run a transaction report and only show activity in Q4 (or a P/Income 
Statement) Do you get blank results or does something show up to indicate the data 
is there? If you get decent reporting, perhaps the register you are viewing is set 
to some filter.

Other than that, without a backup...

Regards,
Adrien


On Jan 24, 2019, at 8:07 PM, John Sears via gnucash-user 
 wrote:

Hi ,

Yep I've already tried this, and found various previous versions ( backups  - 
which I obviously did not do often enough) ..  but none on my computer with any 
log files or the transactions for Q4.  I was rather hoping that GNU cash would 
list the files with the URI somewhere ( beyond the 4 that it does show under 
the file tab).  Im assuming that the four listed files are dydnamic and it only 
keeps the four URI's?


Thanks,

John



On 25/1/19 9:51 AM, Adrien Monteleone wrote:

You could use your file manager search function to look for *.gnucash files.

But within GnuCash, do this:

Try to open one of the files in your history list in the File menu. If it 
exists still in that same place, it will open, if not, it will tell you the URI 
of where  it was expected to find it. This might give some clue as to where to 
go looking. (I just did this and discovered I had moved a file into a 
‘finances’ subdirectory of its former location)

If it opens successfully, but you need to know where it is stored, go to Find > 
Open and you’ll see above the file list is a button based ‘breadcrumb’ trail 
showing you the file path.

Regards,
Adrien


On Jan 24, 2019, at 6:38 PM, 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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Re: [GNC] lost data

[David Cousens]

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  -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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Re: [GNC] lost data

[Adrien Monteleone]

As far as I know, only those four, so if you’ve been opening files searching 
for “the one” you might have tainted the list. Perhaps one of the more seasoned 
users or devs knows if there is a larger master URI list.

One final thing to consider is to check your balances. Are they otherwise 
correct? Run a transaction report and only show activity in Q4 (or a P/Income 
Statement) Do you get blank results or does something show up to indicate the 
data is there? If you get decent reporting, perhaps the register you are 
viewing is set to some filter.

Other than that, without a backup...

Regards,
Adrien

> On Jan 24, 2019, at 8:07 PM, John Sears via gnucash-user 
>  wrote:
> 
> Hi ,
> 
> Yep I've already tried this, and found various previous versions ( backups  - 
> which I obviously did not do often enough) ..  but none on my computer with 
> any log files or the transactions for Q4.  I was rather hoping that GNU cash 
> would list the files with the URI somewhere ( beyond the 4 that it does show 
> under the file tab).  Im assuming that the four listed files are dydnamic and 
> it only keeps the four URI's?
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> John
> 
> 
> 
> On 25/1/19 9:51 AM, Adrien Monteleone wrote:
>> You could use your file manager search function to look for *.gnucash files.
>> 
>> But within GnuCash, do this:
>> 
>> Try to open one of the files in your history list in the File menu. If it 
>> exists still in that same place, it will open, if not, it will tell you the 
>> URI of where  it was expected to find it. This might give some clue as to 
>> where to go looking. (I just did this and discovered I had moved a file into 
>> a ‘finances’ subdirectory of its former location)
>> 
>> If it opens successfully, but you need to know where it is stored, go to 
>> Find > Open and you’ll see above the file list is a button based 
>> ‘breadcrumb’ trail showing you the file path.
>> 
>> Regards,
>> Adrien
>> 
>>> On Jan 24, 2019, at 6:38 PM, 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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Re: [GNC] lost data

[John Sears via gnucash-user]

Hi ,

Yep I've already tried this, and found various previous versions ( 
backups  - which I obviously did not do often enough) ..  but none on my 
computer with any log files or the transactions for Q4.  I was rather 
hoping that GNU cash would list the files with the URI somewhere ( 
beyond the 4 that it does show under the file tab).  Im assuming that 
the four listed files are dydnamic and it only keeps the four URI's?



Thanks,

John



On 25/1/19 9:51 AM, Adrien Monteleone wrote:

You could use your file manager search function to look for *.gnucash files.

But within GnuCash, do this:

Try to open one of the files in your history list in the File menu. If it 
exists still in that same place, it will open, if not, it will tell you the URI 
of where  it was expected to find it. This might give some clue as to where to 
go looking. (I just did this and discovered I had moved a file into a 
‘finances’ subdirectory of its former location)

If it opens successfully, but you need to know where it is stored, go to Find > 
Open and you’ll see above the file list is a button based ‘breadcrumb’ trail 
showing you the file path.

Regards,
Adrien


On Jan 24, 2019, at 6:38 PM, 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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Re: [GNC] lost data

[Adrien Monteleone]

You could use your file manager search function to look for *.gnucash files.

But within GnuCash, do this:

Try to open one of the files in your history list in the File menu. If it 
exists still in that same place, it will open, if not, it will tell you the URI 
of where  it was expected to find it. This might give some clue as to where to 
go looking. (I just did this and discovered I had moved a file into a 
‘finances’ subdirectory of its former location)

If it opens successfully, but you need to know where it is stored, go to Find > 
Open and you’ll see above the file list is a button based ‘breadcrumb’ trail 
showing you the file path.

Regards,
Adrien

> On Jan 24, 2019, at 6:38 PM, 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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[GNC] lost data

[John Sears via gnucash-user]

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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