Thank you Colin. That remedial action makes sense. I remain mystified as to how the name got changed. Verification of which file has all the right data in it isn't as simple as y sounds. I know the reconciliation dates are right in the new file. But going back and checking thousands of prior period entries isn't feasible.
On Wed, Jan 24, 2018, at 2:51 PM, Colin Law wrote: > On 24 January 2018 at 13:57, Mike Stillingfleet > <mikestillingfl...@fastmail.co.uk> wrote:>> Dear All, >> >> I have just noticed (after doing a lot of work on GNU Cash) that the >> file name has changed. I now have a file call Bank >> Expenses.gnucash.>> >> When I click on file I see my old file name as "2" and the new file >> new as "1".>> >> I didn't ever request a new file name. >> >> >> Where did this new file name come from??? >> >> When I clicked on file 2 the screen went gray and said it was an >> unsaved file and the reconiliation dates do not match. i.e. vast >> amount of work missing from my old file.>> >> Can some one explain this. Can some please tell me how I should >> proceed without losing all my work!!> > If the new file has the correct data then open open it and select File > > Save As to save it as another new name, then you can carry on using > it while you try to understand where it came from.> > If you do a full directory listing of the folder then you will also > see all the backup files with embedded timestamps in the name and > should be able to work out what happened.> > When you clicked on file 2 and it says it was unsaved are you sure it > was not saying that you had made just made a change to file 1 > (possibly via a scheduled transaction) and that it was warning you > that you were switching files without saving the work?> > Colin > >> >> Thanks >> >> -- >> Mike Stillingfleet mikestillingfl...@fastmail.co.uk >> _______________________________________________ >> gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org >> 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. -- Mike Stillingfleet mikestillingfl...@fastmail.co.uk _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org 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.