The file that ends in .gnucash is your data file. Also, that file name should generally not have a long string of numbers in it preceding the .gnucash. (this would be a date stamp) Such a named file will be a backup file not the main one.
You can ‘replay’ the log files, but I’ve never used it to advise further. Note, if you are on Mac, you can’t double-click to open it. You have to start GnuCash and use File > Open. Regards, Adrien > On Apr 12, 2020 w16d103, at 4:19 PM, John Clark via gnucash-user > <gnucash-user@gnucash.org> wrote: > > I had tediously entered in my checking account transactions, into a 2016 > file, save it with the ‘log’ files, etc. but now when I open Gnucash, I only > see a 2018 file, which I only had a few entries, I tried ‘importing’ from > *.log, but that only did one limited thing, resulting in ‘orphan’ label. > > How does one recover using the log files, or why isn’t there some ‘master' > file at some point, of which the incremental log files are just updates? > > John Clark. _______________________________________________ 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.
