Re: [GNC] screwed up my cash acount

2025-01-15 Thread Michael or Penny Novack via gnucash-user
On 1/14/2025 8:12 PM, Kalpesh Patel wrote: See https://storware.eu/blog/grandfather-father-son-gfs-backup/ for very popular backup scheme. I advocate backing up the entire system - not just bits here and bytes there. Even with modern electronics in the hard drives (spinning platter ones or the

Re: [GNC] screwed up my cash acount

2025-01-14 Thread Kalpesh Patel
tell you in time when they go bad and believe me they do go bad. -Original Message- From: Michael or Penny Novack Sent: Monday, January 13, 2025 12:59 PM To: gnucash-user@gnucash.org Subject: Re: [GNC] screwed up my cash acount On 1/13/2025 12:37 PM, bullish bob bagley via gnucash-user

Re: [GNC] screwed up my cash acount

2025-01-13 Thread G R Hewitt
If you have a MAC Time Machine does all the grunt lifting out of backing up; many a time it has saved hours of work of one sort or another for me. For Windows I use Macrion Reflect Free; this has the advantage of being able to mount a backup as a drive and drill down to the file you need - more-or-

Re: [GNC] screwed up my cash acount

2025-01-13 Thread G R Hewitt
I think No. 2 could be 'Reconcile each month' and don't let them build up. Much less of a chore if you do it once a month than try to do 12 months worth, or whatever. On Mon, 13 Jan 2025 at 17:23, Mark at Lorimark wrote: > I have had to do this from time to time when trying to reconcile > transa

Re: [GNC] screwed up my cash acount

2025-01-13 Thread Michael or Penny Novack via gnucash-user
On 1/13/2025 12:51 PM, Steve Butler wrote: Make liberal use of FILE: SAVE AS. The default has backups made automatically using your file name as the base name then adding date and timestamp. There are stored in the same place as your file. It also stores log files there in a similar manner wi

Re: [GNC] screwed up my cash acount

2025-01-13 Thread Michael or Penny Novack via gnucash-user
On 1/13/2025 12:37 PM, bullish bob bagley via gnucash-user wrote: ok mark, how do you make a backup in gnucash?  extremely new to it.  Thank you How do you make a backup of all the other user data on your computer? <> You should not be looking at different backup of user data from each appl

Re: [GNC] screwed up my cash acount

2025-01-13 Thread Steve Butler
Make liberal use of FILE: SAVE AS. The default has backups made automatically using your file name as the base name then adding date and timestamp. There are stored in the same place as your file. It also stores log files there in a similar manner with a .log extension. On Mon, Jan 13, 2025,

Re: [GNC] screwed up my cash acount

2025-01-13 Thread Mark at Lorimark
Hi Bob, Your 'file' should just be a single file like; my-file.gnucash and it should be located on your drive somewhere and should end with '.gnucash' extension. If you click on 'help->about' it should tell you where your files are stored. Go to that location and find the (one) file which

Re: [GNC] screwed up my cash acount

2025-01-13 Thread bullish bob bagley via gnucash-user
ok mark, how do you make a backup in gnucash?  extremely new to it.  Thank you On 1/13/25 11:22 AM, Mark at Lorimark wrote: I have had to do this from time to time when trying to reconcile transactions and trying to reconcile accounts.  I too have 'fooled around so much' and made a mess of thi

Re: [GNC] screwed up my cash acount

2025-01-13 Thread Steve Butler
#2. Take smaller steps with #1 at major milestones. On Mon, Jan 13, 2025, 09:23 Mark at Lorimark wrote: > I have had to do this from time to time when trying to reconcile > transactions and trying to reconcile accounts. I too have 'fooled > around so much' and made a mess of things. I have re

Re: [GNC] screwed up my cash acount

2025-01-13 Thread Mark at Lorimark
I have had to do this from time to time when trying to reconcile transactions and trying to reconcile accounts. I too have 'fooled around so much' and made a mess of things. I have reconciled a whole year's worth of transactions only to find I just butchered two accounts. I've adopted two pr

[GNC] screwed up my cash acount

2025-01-13 Thread Richard Danielson
Hello, GC 5.9 on a mac mini using sonoma 14.6.1.  I made a futile attempt to balance my cash starting with the credit line account and then going to cash.  Used the bank statements to guide my entries.  The problem was that there was an entry in the credit line statement which didn't show up