Francis, If you look in the folder which contains your gnucash file there should be a set of backup files. Gnucash creates a backup file. I am assuming you are using the XML format files and not a database. The file will have a name of the form <filename>.gnucash and the backups will have the form <filename>.gnucash.<date-time-stamp>.gnucash . There will also be logfiles of the form <filename>.gnucash.<date-time-stamp>.log . <date-time-stamp> is a number with the format yyyymmddhhmmss eg 20180529153426.
You should be able to open any of these files using the File->Open menu item provided the GnuCash program is opening. If it is not, if you start gnucash from a shell opened at the directory which contains your gnucash data files and then enter at the prompt gnucash ./<filename>.gnucash.<date-time-stamp>.gnucash you should be able to start GnuCash with the specified file substituting as appropriate for <filename> and <date-time-stamp> You could look at opening the most recent backup to see if that opens and if it doesn't move back through the backups until you find one that opens successfully. You may then have to examine the log files to see whether you recorded any transactions after the last backup file you can open was created and reenter them. You can also use the log files to recover any lost data as described in the guide: see https://www.gnucash.org/docs/v3/C/gnucash-guide/basics-backup1.html for more information. If you are using a database, someone else who uses the database backends may be able to help. David Cousens ----- David Cousens -- Sent from: http://gnucash.1415818.n4.nabble.com/GnuCash-User-f1415819.html _______________________________________________ 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.
