.. On 9 July 2017 at 18:16, james <gar...@verizon.net> wrote: > > 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....
And no doubt you will start taking regular backups to an external device, and occasionally keeping an off-site copy. Colin _______________________________________________ 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.
