Re: [GNC] Huge number of missing transactions

2023-02-06 Thread Daine Pearson via gnucash-user
I very much appreciate the comments but to confirm, this definitely was not a simultaneous user issue. There are just two of us, the lock message is pretty clear and because of our schedules, there is also rare overlap for when we might both even need to access the files. That said, I still

Re: [GNC] Huge number of missing transactions

2023-02-05 Thread Phyllis Bruce
Has anyone suggested that you look back at older log files and recover from one that is more complete? What's gone today may not have been gone last month. Just saying On Sun, Feb 5, 2023 at 9:42 AM Michael or Penny Novack < stepbystepf...@comcast.net> wrote: > On 2/5/2023 4:26 AM, David

Re: [GNC] Huge number of missing transactions

2023-02-05 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 2/5/2023 4:26 AM, David T. via gnucash-user wrote: I'll briefly chime in here to suggest that network issues and potential simultaneous access are more likely culprits for your data corruption and loss. I will second that. Gnucash does NOT support multiple simultaneous users. It does

Re: [GNC] Huge number of missing transactions

2023-02-05 Thread David T. via gnucash-user
I'll briefly chime in here to suggest that network issues and potential simultaneous access are more likely culprits for your data corruption and loss. A search for compatibility issues between GnuCash versions 3.6 and 4.11 did not yield any specific changes that would result in the loss of

Re: [GNC] Huge number of missing transactions

2023-02-04 Thread Daine Pearson via gnucash-user
Sadly, no.. those help docs are pretty basic - I have looked at most of what can be found in the various docs and generally searching. I'll probably need to go to the code repository and look for comments or something along those lines. Still would be good to at least confirm that our actions

Re: [GNC] Huge number of missing transactions

2023-02-03 Thread David H
https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/FAQ#Q:_What_are_all_these_.gnucash_and_.log_files_filling_up_my_directory.3F https://www.gnucash.org/docs/v3/C/gnucash-guide/basics-backup1.html Might give you an explanation of the log files... Cheers David H. On Sat, 4 Feb 2023 at 10:01, Daine Pearson via

[GNC] Huge number of missing transactions

2023-02-03 Thread Daine Pearson via gnucash-user
Hi all, I do see a few messages spread over the years about similar issues but most have gone unanswered so I thought I'd create a new one. My partner and I have been jointly using GNUcash for a few years. The XML data files reside on a shared network drive. I recently installed a new Win