On 07/09/17 08:15, Mike or Penny Novack wrote: > We'll take this in steps > > > On 7/9/2017 12:06 AM, james wrote: >> Hello, >> >> Good news, I lost a small 5 year history (but should have backups from >> last year. I've been really sick for 6 months, so my gnu-skills >> fuzzy, weak or just blank. >> >> When I fire up gnucash all I get is an empty version. I have 5 years of >> data in gnucash, but I cannot seem to get the data to load. gnucash >> fires up just fine; everything is zeros. I use (gentoo) linux. >> >> In the past I just launched (gnucash &) and it found everything. >> I think I deleted files I should not have. > When you start gnucash (normally) it will try to open the file (books) > that were last opened. But you can still TELL gnucash to open a > different file (file => open) and those of us who use the "no file" > parameter will have gnucash start without trying to open a file so we > are always specifying which via file => open. A drop down shows the last > four you can select from but you can write in some other. > >> >> >> So I've tried to load up older files, even a year older or so with no >> luck. The chart of accounts and names are there, just no data. > You SAY you have backups of your older data. Do you? Did you make them? > What did you call them and where did you put them? Getting JUST the CoA > sounds to me that you are not looking at a file that is a copy of the > file at backup time. Did you THINK you were making a backup by > exporting? (just the CoA) >> >> Any ideas on recovery ? I many .log files and .guncash files >> that are not empty, but nothing I try loads any of the older data. > You would recover by opening a backup file. Look, this is just like > moving to a new/different computer, where you would bring in the data > from some portable medium you could use between the two machines. But > you have to have a proper backup file to do that. > > Michael S Novack
Hello, GOOD NEWS, stroke of luck. The old lappy must have a bad mobo battery. The date was set for 2006. So there were a few copyies made under the 2006 date. I was able to load one of those up and it had all the data complete history. I then reset the mobo & system OS clocks and loaded up an old version and made several copies of the <file>.gnucash file my main entires are for the checkbook and the credit card files (99%) so all the data from previous year is there. Thanks for your response. After I get the 2016 data entered and generate the reports, I can deliver for a belated 2016 tax filing (had extensions) for both the business and personal. Then, now that I have a newer lappy, I'll put linux on it and upgrade to the latest stable.... sincerely, James > _______________________________________________ > gnucash-user mailing list > gnucash-user@gnucash.org > https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user > ----- > Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. > You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All. > _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
