Lost my gramps data base ... help!

John Sibert <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.genealogy.gramps.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Linux Mint 20.3 Una
gramps 5.1.1

Alas, I managed to delete my home directly, completely. I was the only 
user with root privileges and was unable to effectively fix anything. So 
after a long struggle session, committed upgrade on my OS and went from 
Mint 19.3 to 10.3 (something I had been planning to do anyhow). I keep 
habitual backups on an external NAS drive and was able to recover most 
of the deleted files. I installed a fresh copy of gramps, but was unable 
to recover my data base. All of the media files seem to be pesent, but I 
can find no trace of the sql database. I did backups two days before I 
lost anything, but they were media backups, hence no database. I did 
find an older file, Sibert-2019-2019-09-19-12-04-49.gramps, and imported 
it into gramps, but it is two year out of date.

One of several questions I have is where (ie directory and file) does 
gramps write data when you "Quit" a gramps session?

I have a couple of suggestions that might help other gramps users avoid 
this dilemma, but I would really like to restore my database first.

Any help would be gratefully received and rewarded with beer points.

Regards,
John


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