Adam, the data files with the .gnucash suffix are a special form of text file that can be read with your regular text editors such as wordpad, notepad or an office editor like MSWord or LibreOffice. GnuCash normally compresses these files by default, so you may need to uncompress the files with your favorite file compression program.
As Derek mentioned, recovered files must be on a different physical medium than your unrecovered files. You are running your OS and GnuCash from a fresh copy on a different physical drive as well, I hope. If any of those editor programs can display clear text and it looks like transaction data rather than other information like window dimensions or report settings then you probably have recovered your data. On Wed, Jul 28, 2021 at 11:04 AM Derek Atkins <de...@ihtfp.com> wrote: > Hi, > > On Wed, July 28, 2021 11:57 am, Adam Hodnett wrote: > > Maybe it is a metadata file... I do have many of the > > <filename>.YYYYMMDDHHMMSS.gnucash files in the same directory as the > > <filename>.gnucash file. They all give the same error. There are also > .txt > > files with the same names. > > > > I recovered the data with EaseUS Data Recovery. I am attempting to > recover > > the same data with a different program at the moment, in case that's the > > issue. > > It is sounding like the recovery did not succeed. If the backup failed to > recover even a single block of data it will cause the decompression to > fail. Windows doesn't really have all the best tools to debug these kinds > of issues. > > > .gnucash files are all between 70kb and about 140kb. > > Assuming you mean KB (KiloBytes) and not kb (kilobits), those files are > probably about the correct size if you don't have a ton of transactions. > My 15-year-old data file is 2.8 MB. > > Note: Backups only work if you copy the data to another storage system > off your main system. > > > Adam Hodnett > > Videographer | Project Coordinator > > -derek > > -- > Derek Atkins 617-623-3745 > de...@ihtfp.com www.ihtfp.com > Computer and Internet Security Consultant > > _______________________________________________ > 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. > -- David Carlson _______________________________________________ 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.
