One of my USB drives has a name and the other one is listed just as USB, so I know which one is which one. From scientific work I was exposed to a lot of UNIX, so when Apple switched to a UNIX based system I switched to Apple and have had no regrets. My thesis was written with LaTeX and TeX, which will run on Apple machines, so I am trying to save the file from floppy disks. -----Original Message----- From: David Carlson <[email protected]> Sent: Mar 5, 2026 6:29 PM To: Jens Ingemann Jensen <[email protected]> Cc: David T. <[email protected]>, <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [GNC] Fwd: All data gone
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] (mailto:[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" &rarr; "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] (mailto:[email protected])> Sent: Mar 5, 2026 4:19 AM To: [email protected] (mailto:[email protected]) <[email protected] (mailto:[email protected])>, Jens Ingemann Jensen <[email protected] (mailto:[email protected])> Cc: [email protected] (mailto:[email protected]) <[email protected] (mailto:[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] (mailto:[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 &rdquo;Files&rdquo; &rarr; &ldquo;Open&rdquo; 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]) (mailto:[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] (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. -- 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.
