On Tue, 3 Apr 2018, John Ralls wrote:
Does business.gnucash use the SQLite3 backend? If so, that would explain the absence of backups, and I suggest you set up some OS-level backup mechanism for it.
John, I use the default backend; 'file' shows it as a compressed Unix file; perhaps gzipped xml? Every midnight cron runs dirvish for incremental backups. What's interesting is since I loaded the business.gnucash file yesterday and everything displayed as it should, the list of files in the business subdirectory includes business.gnucash (which opens the current state of that account) as well as several .gnucash and .log files from yesterday's activities. For example, business.gnucash.20180403104944.gnucash and business.gnucash.20180403104944.log. So, the business account works as expected. On the other hand, the personal account can be loaded by specifying only a 'personal.gnucash.*.gnucash' file. When I open personal.gnucash I get an empty display with no CoA or anything else. Specifically, the recently opened file list shows 'personal.gnucash.20180403092939.gnucash'. I suspect that I can rename one of the datetime stamped files to personal.gnucash, and clean up that subdirectory. I would appreciate your thoughts on this. Having just opened gnucash, and shut it down, these are the files in the personal/ subdirectory: gnucash-coa.gnucash personal.gnucash personal.gnucash.20180402112722.log personal.gnucash.20180402112803.log personal.gnucash.20180402112813.gnucash personal.gnucash.20180402112813.log personal.gnucash.20180403092537.log personal.gnucash.20180403092537.log.gnucash personal.gnucash.20180403092537.log.gnucash.20180403092911.log personal.gnucash.20180403092840.gnucash personal.gnucash.20180403092840.log personal.gnucash.20180403092939.gnucash personal.gnucash.20180403092939.gnucash.20180403095225.log personal.gnucash.20180403092939.gnucash.20180403104401.log personal.gnucash.20180403092939.gnucash.20180403125139.log personal.gnucash.20180403092939.gnucash.20180403125159.gnucash personal.gnucash.20180403092939.gnucash.20180403125159.log personal.gnucash.20180403092939.gnucash.20180404053639.log personal.gnucash.20180403092939.gnucash.20180404053716.log personal.gnucash.20180403092939.log personal.gnucash.20180403104006.log personal.gnucash.20180404053709.log The newest log file is personal.gnucash.20180403092939.gnucash.20180404053716.log while the newest .gnucash file is personal.gnucash.20180403092939.gnucash.20180403125159.gnucash. Can I copy the latter to personal.gnucash so that's the file name displayed in most-recently opened files? I would like to clean this up. Regards, Rich _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
