Well, as it was supposed to happen, all worked out well. Just changed the biggest file or the one named below to some generic file name. It works fine....so far. Thanks, all, Carl __________________________________________________________________
From: D. [[1]mailto:sunfis...@yahoo.com] Subject: [GNC] Disappearing entries Date: Thursday, June 18, 2020, 2:34 PM To: Carl Cc: Michael Hendry; Gnucash Users Hard to say how bad this is. I'd start with the newest data file (by modificatio n date) that does NOT include the 14-digit timestamp, and see what was there. Th at may or may not be the file named "GC January 12 2019.gnucash". More likely it 's newer ("GC January 15 2020.gnucash", for example). You would then be able to tell how many different times you opened a backup by s eeing how many log files were created after that last file. Working on a spare c opy of that last file, you could try running the log files dated afterward to re create the work. This may or may not work, depending on whether you changed the account structure. If it works, great. If not, you'll have to recreate the trans actions manually. I avoid this problem by only having one simply named basic data file in my data directory (in my case, "accounts.gnucash"). Backups and dated storage copies get placed in remote folders to keep the idiot from screwing things up (which he is very good at!). David T. -------- Original Message -------- From: [2]l...@ipadring.net Sent: Thu Jun 18 13:32:14 EDT 2020 To: "D." [3]<sunfis...@yahoo.com>, Michael Hendry [4]<hendry.mich...@gmail.com> Cc: Derek Atkins [5]<de...@ihtfp.com>, Gnucash Users [6]<gnucash-u...@gnucash.or g> Subject: Re: [GNC] Disappearing entries Ok, how do I fix this...or what file should I use? Carl On June 18, 2020 4:50:11 PM UTC, "D." [7]<sunfis...@yahoo.com> wrote: I'd definitely agree that his data is forked. Both ways! -------- Original Message -------- From: Michael Hendry [8]<hendry.mich...@gmail.com> Sent: Thu Jun 18 12:27:13 EDT 2020 To: Derek Atkins [9]<de...@ihtfp.com> Cc: [10]gnucash-user@gnucash.org, Carl [11]<l...@ipadring.net> Subject: Re: [GNC] Disappearing entries On 18 Jun 2020, at 17:22, Derek Atkins [12]<de...@ihtfp.com> wrote: Hi, On Thu, June 18, 2020 11:48 am, Carl wrote: Here's the command that's used- gnucash %f Hmm.. This could be part of the issue. %f probably means "filename". So if you click a file it'll open that one directly and not the main file. Below is the name of my GC file (regardless of the name of the file below the date and time stamp on the file.....on the far right of the file manager...is current for when I last used the file- June 17 2020 at 7 PM GC January 12 2019.gnucash.20190518080326.gnucash AND... here we have what could be part of your issue. This is a backup file. Specifically, this is a backup file that was generated on May 18, 2019 (at 8:03 am). So at SOME point you started working from a year-old backup file. It's unclear when that happened. But you have most likely forked your data. Is that a minced oath? Michael _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list [13]gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: [14]https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see [15]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. References 1. mailto:sunfis...@yahoo.com 2. mailto:l...@ipadring.net 3. mailto:sunfis...@yahoo.com 4. mailto:hendry.mich...@gmail.com 5. mailto:de...@ihtfp.com 6. mailto:gnucash-user@gnucash.org 7. mailto:sunfis...@yahoo.com 8. mailto:hendry.mich...@gmail.com 9. mailto:de...@ihtfp.com 10. mailto:gnucash-user@gnucash.org 11. mailto:l...@ipadring.net 12. mailto:de...@ihtfp.com 13. mailto:gnucash-user@gnucash.org 14. https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user 15. https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists _______________________________________________ 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.