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On 3/5/26 16:46, Jens Ingemann Jensen 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
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