[GNC] After a long hiatus I'm trying to restart using GNC for my accounting/tax needs. I have some old GNC files, but can't open them correctly.
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.
Re: [GNC] After a long hiatus I'm trying to restart using GNC for my accounting/tax needs. I have some old GNC files, but can't open them correctly.
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 > 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.
Re: [GNC] After a long hiatus I'm trying to restart using GNC for my accounting/tax needs. I have some old GNC files, but can't open them correctly.
John, To replay the log files you have to open one of the previous backup files identified as Adrien described them and then import one by one all logfiles with a timestamp forward from that backup file. See https://www.gnucash.org/docs/v3/C/gnucash-guide/basics-backup1.html 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.
