I would not use MSWord or LibreOffice to look at it because those are
word processors and not straight text editors.
One poorly placed fat finger could write formatting to the data file
really messing it up.
Notepad is safer not sure about Wordpad.
On 7/28/21 12:30 PM, David Carlson wrote:
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
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