Re: [GNC] gnucash file name after move from ubuntu 20.04 to debian 10

2021-01-02 Thread Richard Danielson
Hello Adrien, Sorry, but I forgot (a couple of times) to reply to your advice.  The backups seem to be fine and apart from not being able to make "flatpak update" work, I am happy working with GC 4.1. My dad also said "Measure twice.  Cut once."  However maybe it was some unknown problem

Re: [GNC] gnucash file name after move from ubuntu 20.04 to debian 10

2020-12-08 Thread Adrien Monteleone
Maybe take a good look at those backups and the main file. Make sure you didn't inadvertently enter transactions in the backups at some point! (fixable, but not pleasant in direct proportion to the number of said transactions) My uncle taught me his first rule of carpentry: "Measure twice.

Re: [GNC] gnucash file name after move from ubuntu 20.04 to debian 10

2020-12-08 Thread David H
Glad to hear it! Cheers David. On Wed, 9 Dec 2020 at 08:19, Richard Danielson wrote: > Thanks David, > That worked. I know that I've seen mention often about backup files. > Guess my action in September resulted in that. I hadn't done anything in > 2020 except moving the program on a new

Re: [GNC] gnucash file name after move from ubuntu 20.04 to debian 10

2020-12-08 Thread Richard Danielson
Thanks David, That worked.  I know that I've seen mention often about backup files.  Guess my action in September resulted in that.  I hadn't done anything in 2020 except moving the program on a new drive in September.  I'm now caught up from Dec/19 to the end of Jan/20.  Thanks for your help.

Re: [GNC] gnucash file name after move from ubuntu 20.04 to debian 10

2020-12-08 Thread David H
Rick, 'my name'.gnucash.20200912164616.gnucash indicates a backup file created by gnucash on 12 Sept 2020 at 16:46:16 aka 4:46:16pm - you should be looking for the 'my name'.gnucash file which will be your primary gnucash file If you haven't lost any txns since this date and time you could

[GNC] gnucash file name after move from ubuntu 20.04 to debian 10

2020-12-08 Thread Richard Danielson
Hello, I recently moved my computer system (and gnucash) from ubuntu 20.04 to debian 10.  After installing debian, I copied my /home directory to the new system.  Previous to the move I had upgraded to version 4.2 on flatpak. After the transition, the file name for the gnucash data file

[GNC] gnucash file name after move from ubuntu 20.04 to debian 10

2020-12-08 Thread Richard Danielson
Hello, I recently moved my computer system (and gnucash) from ubuntu 20.04 to debian 10.  After installing debian, I copied my /home directory to the new system.  Previous to the move I had upgraded to version 4.2 on flatpak. After the transition, the file name for the gnucash data file