I am not a user of Apple products, so I don't know how you know which usb drive is which there, but I know that it can get confusing on Windows machines, especially if there are more than one with both the same brand and same volume size. I have resorted to assigning an electronic label to each one and attaching a physical tag with the same label to keep track of mine. Windows is notorious for reassigning drive letters, so I cannot assume that they haven't changed since yesterday.
On Thu, Mar 5, 2026 at 4:47 PM Jens Ingemann Jensen <[email protected]> wrote: > David, > What I did was to take the USB stick on which I had saved the GNC file, > plugged it into my MacBook, and then opened GNC. It said it could not find > the usual file, so I went to "File" → "Open" clicked on the file on > the USB stick, and it opened a file with the standard expense categories > and zero balances and telling me it was "read only". Then I went back to > my iMac and now when I opened GNC the same happened. Both computers run > GNC 5.1 > There was a second USB drive plugged into the iMac of which I had been > unaware, and it turned out that the files had been saved there too, but > trying to open them from there resulted in the same scenario. > This all happened on the 15th, and today I plugged in only the second USB > stick on my iMac, and I was able to find a file with a time stamp from the > 13th on this drive. I opened GNC and opened this file via the file menu. > It opened and came up with all the missing information. Miracle. The > first USB stick did not have any files with time stamps earlier than the > 15th. Now I am leary of trying again to run GNC on two computers, but I > will try to copy that good file onto a third USB stick and see if it will > open on the MacBook. I travel a bit, therefore the desire to run it on two > computers, so I can stay on top of my finances. > Even if I got my data back, I am still curious what I did wrong. > Thank you to everyone who has tried to help. > Jens > > > -----Original Message----- > From: David T. <[email protected]> > Sent: Mar 5, 2026 4:19 AM > To: [email protected] <[email protected]>, Jens Ingemann > Jensen <[email protected]> > Cc: [email protected] <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [GNC] Fwd: All data gone > > > Jens, > > Can you clarify for me: you say you copied the file to usb and it wouldn't > load on the new machine. Did you copy this file from the USB stick onto the > new machine? Or did you try to load the data file directly from the USB > stick? > > What happens if you copy the file to your Documents folder on the new > machine? > > What about the original file on the older machine? Does that still load? > > David T. > > > On Thursday, March 5, 2026 at 09:33:10 AM GMT+5:30, Jens Ingemann Jensen < > [email protected]> wrote: > > > I have found all the replies on Gnucash-user, but I have not yet solved > the problem. I did open GnuCash, went to ”Files” → > “Open” and found one of the files to open but it did not change > anything. Previously when I opened GNC it also came up with the filename > and asked if it should open it, which went fine all the time. I never > tried to open GNC by doubeclickeing on a file. As said I wanted to use GNC > on both my Intel silicon (desktop) and Mac silicon (laptop) computers > running McaOS 13.7.8 and 26.3 respectively. GNC on my laptop is vs. 5.10 > and 5.14 on the desktop. > I still hope to find a way to get my data back. > Kind regards > Jens > _______________________________________________ > gnucash-user mailing list > [email protected] (mailto:[email protected]) > To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: > 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 > [email protected] > To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: > 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. > -- David Carlson _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list [email protected] To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: 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.
